[1] Writing for the album started in 2012, shortly after the release of Ariettes oubliées.... Teyssier originally started to write song in the same vein as previous Les Discrets works, but realized that he was disinterested in the result; after taking a break from music, he chose to create a new project, titled Saint Paul, which would follow a different musical direction, but after the project failed to come to life, decided instead to make it Les Discrets' third album, despite the artistic differences.

[1] According to Teyssier, "Prédateurs is a record for late evenings, night driving, journeys on a train, or for those moments we usually think about the meaning of life and things, when we have nothing else to do but sitting and waiting.

Its main themes are time, nature and life [...] "I feel that Les Discrets has its own wings now, free of the influences of post-rock, post-black or post-anything constraints.

[1] As with Les Discrets' previous works, the album features both original lyrics by Hadorn, and tracks using texts from classic French poets: Henri de Régnier for "Le Reproche" and Victor Hugo for "Fleur des Murailles".

[10] Angry Metal Guy, despite acknowledging the "rich sense of depth" of the album, felt that most of the tracks "dwell in the realm of soppy, unmemorable post-rock that’s about as exciting as waiting to get picked up at the airport".