In "Melody Maker", the reviewer said that "in a very real sense, ["Godbluff"] is the sound of the mid-seventies: uncomfortable, coherent, unremitting, courageous". Geoff Barton of "Sounds" deemed "Godbluff" "simply, an essential buy". A negative review appeared in the "Lancashire Evening Post" in November 1975, in which Bob Papworth wrote that ""Godbluff" is a lengthy exhibition of the type of studiously avant-garde rock which so many other groups play infinitely better." Papworth added that "Guy Evans couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag and David Jackson's saxes and flutes are a little too simplistic to be credible."