"Whatever magic happens when people are opened up a bit and just being with each other is a pretty special thing, and that requires the person performing to invite that from the audience, rather than simply pushing noise to them," he adds. After an intimate show at Vinyl in Guelph, Ontario, Josh Doyle remarked in "The Ontarion" that Cardiff's "call and response style of involving the audience made it less of a concert and more of a large group of friends and strangers getting together … Cardiff involved his audience to the point that they stopped being an audience … His between song antics and personable approach made it also a comedy show, as Cardiff pulled enough material out of the air to have everyone in Vinyl laughing hysterically." Lynn Saxberg of the "Ottawa Citizen" has said that "his folky melodies and soft vocals are as warm and soothing as a cup of hot chocolate. Like Paul Simon, Van Morrison and John Mayer, he finds a balance between heartache and joy." Cardiff's singing style has been compared to that of Nick Drake.