 Some years later, Allmusic's Bill Cassel found "Hunters & Collectors" (US version) to be "seething art funk comparable to a harder-edged Shriekback or less political Gang of Four"; at the time of its launch, Shriekback had only released one EP.Their lyrics "are stream-of-consciousness poetics that range from the merely incomprehensible to the downright silly".Seymour's vocal delivery "does not sound entirely comfortable" while the "muscular rhythms" of Archer and Falconer "motor right over the young band's shortcomings".