 "Melody Maker" urged readers to buy the record by calling it "beautiful", while "Music Week" labelled it "a tour-de-force of timeless pop songs" and "a lost classic".Allmusic's Stewart Mason wrote, ""Waterpistol" is one of those rare 'lost' albums that's actually as good or better than the hype suggests.This may actually be better than the more lauded "H.M.S.