 The tone of the album has been described as less dark than the group's follow-up albums "Succour" and "CH-VOX".The album's unusual blend of genres led critics to apply various different labels to "Quique", associating it with styles such as dream pop, ambient techno, dub, intelligent dance music, and shoegaze.Critic Simon Reynolds described the group as "the best" of various dream pop bands who had "turned on to techno."