The Huddersfield Examiner hailed it as "all you might expect from the Scaramanga Six – dark, brooding, witty pop rock", noting "a more sparse and bleak arrangement than usual" but commenting that the songs "have not lost the grandiose bombast the ‘Six’ are famous for.

"[2] The Yorkshire Evening Post described Songs of Prey as "a riff-heavy, ballsy heavy rock album that mixes up the stirring bombast of Rainbow and the compelling muscularity of Queens Of The Stone Age, yet still throws in enough musical and lyrical curveballs to lift it out of the ordinary.

"[3] This Is Fake DIY described the album as "cinematic art-rock that combines thrashing guitars with orchestral and distinctly non-rock instruments to create something individual and that has instant replay value...

Yes, there's moments where you feel that the most appropriate action to take whilst listening to the record is to thrust your fist in the air in a stadium rock fashion, but somehow this bombast is endearing, where we would expect it to be off-putting.

"[4] On the Leeds Music Scene website, reviewer Alexander Rennie commented "Who else asks 'If you believe the lamb can lie beside the lion / Then you're only lyin' to yourself' (as they do in "You Should Have Killed Me...") and expects you to carry on listening?...

And the showmanship, meanwhile, never feels forced… The rock posturing is tremendously good fun and the sound is often that of a band enjoying themselves whilst blowing a hearty raspberry in the direction of anyone taking life too seriously… There might be some silly stuff thrown into the mix, but it would be a radically different world in which The Scaramanga Six were entirely straight faced for nearly an hour.