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From their initial releases until 1995 Living Field album, the pillows music was categorized as a blend of alternative rock and jazz experimentation under the influence of British bands such as The Smiths and The Stone Roses.

The Please Mr. Lostman album is considered to be a transition from a soft jazz oriented style to a more fast-paced sound with fuzzier guitars.

Since 1998 Little Busters album, the pillows developed a harder sound with extense use of more distorted guitars to create more lively and catchy songs in the like of bands such as Weezer, Supergrass and Pixies, the last one being clearly of big importance to songwriter Sawao Yamanaka who wrote a song named " Kim Deal " ( the Pixies bassist ) in the 1999 Happy Bivouac album ( in the album's booklet Sawao wears a t-shirt with a Kim Deal stamp ).