 Clifford was irritated by being placed within a genre by critics, stating that Seefeel "weren 't trying to fit into any one of their scenes and it felt a little like we were almost having convention thrust upon us when that was the very thing we were reacting against." AllMusic compared the songs to ambient music by the Aphex Twin, while Exclaim! noted that "Quique follows a similar path as Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient work but with structures that a more rock-based band like Chapterhouse dreamed of matching." The members of Seefeel were fans of Aphex Twin and said after playing shows with him and Autechre that they felt "more affinity with them than many of the bands we 'd met – Robin Guthrie and the Cocteau Twins excepted!"
