 "The Stranger" described them as "the only band in America that can make a saxophone sound like it belongs in the middle of intimidating post-punk guitars and apocalyptic vocals".The "Riverfront Times" described the band's music as "a jazz-laden style of indie rock that featured plenty of mathy twists and turns".Reviewing "Tomorrow We Will Run Faster", Allmusic writer Rick Anderson viewed their music as falling "somewhere between the dry, academic precision of 1980s King Crimson and the sprawling art-punk clamor of Mission of Burma".