• Record Label: Virgin
  • Release Date: Jan 24, 2012
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 18
  2. Negative: 5 out of 18
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  1. Jan 25, 2012
    1
    Totally devoid of any creative thought, this album is factory made for your local 'alternative/modern-rock' radio station. Bands like this are so formulaic I have to wonder if there is an algorithm somewhere that produces these songs. If so, Anonymous, would you mind destroying the computers responsible for this offense to rock?
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68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Q Magazine
    Jan 30, 2012
    60
    Replacing buoyant guitars and boy-girl dilemmas with dark themes of religion, parenthood and death, this [album] is a bridge to grittier material, albeit that with a glittering pop-rock handrail. [Nov 2011, p. 143]
  2. Jan 24, 2012
    75
    Sinners Never Sleep is a transitional album, though such efforts rarely bode as well for the future as this does.
  3. Alternative Press
    Nov 15, 2011
    60
    One can only wonder how Sinners Never Sleep would have fared had it been more consistent. [Nov 2011, p.98]