[2] In a statement at the time of the album's release, the band described their approach as involving fractal patterning that many may find to be chaotic.

We're fascinated by the book Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter and we try to make music that is recursive.

Doug Moore, in a positive review for Invisible Oranges, argues that "Most of Car Bomb’s riffs boil down to alien percussive sounds, mapped onto Byzantine rhythms.

"[4] Andy O'Connor, writing for Pitchfork.com, compares Car Bomb to the influential Swedish metal band Meshuggah.

“You’d be forgiven for thinking that New York experimental metal quartet Car Bomb were a Meshuggah tribute band.