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The album is overflowing with modern day punk-pop anthems, dressed up with technological marvels and justifiably bleak outlooks. [#5, p.89]

Billboard

Sleeping With Ghosts is glorious; an unrepentant emotional exorcism that cohesively hurdles between the bleak and wounded, the exuberant and defiant.

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Q Magazine

Spikily brilliant. [Apr 2003, p.111]

Playlouder

Like post-Kelli Sneaker Pimps or a goth Massive Attack, it adds slow trip-hop beats and whispery vocals to a dreamy soundscape.

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Dot Music

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

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Amazon.com

As much an album for slam-dancing nights out at Goth haunts as it is music for the psychiatrist’s couch.

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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.

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Pitchfork

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

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Rolling Stone

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

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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.

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PopMatters

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

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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]

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]

Blender

Ultimately, the anthems are as generic as they are hooky. [May 2003, p.123]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 32 User Votes

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Dan gave it a9:
The second best Placebo-Record till now...

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
Placebo!!!!!! The best band i ever heard

Angi hftzhh gave it a10:
I love brian molko and his amazing voice. nobody sounds like he does. and this album is one of the best i've ever had

Fred R gave it a10:
It's amazing! Great lyrics about love in many ways and many other feelings are expressed trough Brian words.

Marco M gave it a9:
Placebo are one of the best things to emerge in the music scene and this album should be appreciated for its’ quality.

melissa j gave it a10:
loooove this band, they can do no wrong and they just get better with age. hehe

John gave it a 9:
Great album from a great band... without a doubt one of the best things I've ever heard

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