 Critics have compared the band to fellow post-hardcore peers the Fall of Troy, Alexisonfire and Circa Survive.Their 2011 release "Downtown Battle Mountain II" is said to feature “the same structuring as The Mars Volta album "The Bedlam In Goliath" in that it never lets up”.When asked about their influences in a 2007 interview, Jon Mess said, "We all have such varied music taste that it would be quite a long list," and mentioned At the Drive-In, Cursive, Explosions in the Sky, MF Doom and Radiohead.