[3] Mark Deming, in a retrospective review for AllMusic, noted that the band had added a lot of "studio polish" to their sound on Katrina and the Waves 2.

He wrote, "This was a good and a bad thing; the glossier production allows some of the finer details of Kimberley Rew's songwriting and guitar work to come to the surface, but the additional backing vocals, keyboards, and horns also clutter arrangements that had been lean and straightforward on their earlier recordings, and drummer Alex Cooper was asked to share percussion duties with a LinnDrum here, and as a result the music sounds stiffer and less energetic."

Deming also noted that Rew, on tracks like "Cry for Me" and "The Game of Love", explored a "retro-styled pop sound that gave the recording a new twist.

"[4] Trouser Press wrote that, compared to the band's first album, Katrina and the Waves 2 "takes a harder-rocking bent, downplaying the tunefulness slightly to highlight jumping numbers like "She Loves to Groove," the nutty "Maniac House" and a powerful, Janis Joplin-like blues, "Cry for Me."

"[6] Katrina and the Waves 2 was reissued in 2010 on the CGB label in a limited edition of 1000 copies, each individually numbered.