[8] Richard Foster for The Quietus described the album as "a record packed with phrases and licks that become earworms, passages that create vivid and empathetic dream scenarios, and spruce blasts of noise that give a real sense of energy".

[1][17] Julian Marszalek, writing for The Guardian, described their music as blending "off-kilter melodies, dense instrumentation and lyrical explorations of the darkest side of the human condition".

[7] Pitchfork writer Stuart Berman described them as indie rock, "a potent fusion of lurching post-hardcore and shimmering shoegaze" and "dystopian post-punk".

[21] Kwiatkowski described his lyrics as exploring "rather dark and rather frighting sides of human nature", and the band's music as a "meditative, pessimistic thing", and "vital pessimism".

[18][22][23] The band's influences include the Beatles, the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, classical composers such as Bach and Schubert, and the films of Werner Herzog.