 The music on the album was "firmly rooted in the dark, midtempo style of gothic and doom metal".Their second album "Almost a Dance" arrived in the following year with new vocalist Niels Duffhues, "a strange choice for the band".Duffhues' "punk-ish" and "alt-rock" style of singing was widely seen as out of place with the music, a perception that was shared by the band themselves, and the album was "largely written off as a result."