Critical Reception
CMJ New Music Monthly described Tristeza's style in a review of their album, Dream Signals in Full Circles, "A typical Tristeza track involves a down-shifted take on emo's rhythmic lopsidedness, beds of washy, behind-the-beat keyboards, and Christopher Sprague's arpeggiated, effect-drenched guitar melodies. It's all adeptly played, but the point is less individual virtuosity than collective compositional panache."
Piero Scaruffi wrote, "San Diego's Tristeza seemed to wed new-age music and instrumental post-rock with the slow, gentle pieces of Spine and Sensory (1999)."
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