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Sleeping With Ghosts
by Placebo
The UK glam-punk band returns with their fourth album.
| LABEL: |
Astralwerks |
| RELEASE DATE: |
01 April 2003 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Alternative, Rock, Britpop |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
85
Filter
The album is overflowing with modern day punk-pop anthems, dressed up with technological marvels and justifiably bleak outlooks. [#5, p.89]
80
Billboard
Sleeping With Ghosts is glorious; an unrepentant emotional exorcism that cohesively hurdles between the bleak and wounded, the exuberant and defiant.

80
Q Magazine
Spikily brilliant. [Apr 2003, p.111]
80
Playlouder
Like post-Kelli Sneaker Pimps or a goth Massive Attack, it adds slow trip-hop beats and whispery vocals to a dreamy soundscape.

80
Dot Music
Sound-wise, 'Sleeping With Ghosts' is pretty much flawless.

70
Amazon.com
As much an album for slam-dancing nights out at Goth haunts as it is music for the psychiatrists couch.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Placebo may never reach an American audience past its established fans, but those fans ought to gravitate to Sleeping With Ghosts' uncluttered, moody niche.

64
Pitchfork
No peaks, no gorges, just a steady oscillation between adequate and inspired.

60
Rolling Stone
It's a rare rocktronic mix that actually grooves, even if the ride can be a little jittery.

60
All Music Guide
New fans will find Sleeping With Ghosts to be a good record. Old fans, though, might think the band wimped out while growing up.

60
PopMatters
It tends to dilute the very elements that make the band unique.

40
Mojo
There's some terrific and accessible stuff here.... but the result is still an album that retreads old Placebo themes. [Apr 2003, p.110]
40
Uncut
Electro-guru Jim Abbiss... can't salvage much from the band's often tedious three-chord bustlings or Molko's lamely repetitious lyrics. [May 2003, p.90]
40
Blender
Ultimately, the anthems are as generic as they are hooky. [May 2003, p.123]

The average user rating for this album is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 31 User Votes
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