 Bradley Stern of Time, compared the Aiko's musical style to the work of Sade, calling the album's genre "future R&B", Stern continued to compare her music to the work of The Weeknd, Tinashe and FKA twigs.Aiko writes music every day, often writing lines or a poem, and begins to add them to melodies.She describes her writing style as "freestyle," where she just says how she is feeling, taking a day or up to a month to complete.