Floating, amorphous, oceanic crooning (or crooning with attitude) seems to mirror the feeling of non-specific dread that many people now feel when they think about life, the world, the future; yet it expresses a feeling of bliss. The bliss is non-specific, also, covering a spectrum which ranges from stress management at one end to spiritual ecstasy at the other. So disquiet hovers in balance with the act of escapism or liberation.

— Ocean of Sound by David Toop (Page 91)