| Ratings | |
| All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars | 4 Stars |
| Metacritic (Metascore 0-100, Weighted Average of Reviews from USA and UK) | 80 |
| Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) | 6 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Amazon (USA) - Top Albums of 2008 | 84 |
| SPIN (USA) - Top Albums of 2008 | 32 |
| Treble (USA) - Top Albums of 2008 | 42 |
| woxy.com (USA) - Top Albums of 2008 | 39 |
| Planet Sound (UK) - Top Albums of 2008 | 22 |
| Laut (Germany) - Top Albums of 2008 | 34 |
| Visions (Germany) - Top Albums of 2008 | 38 |
| RockZone (Spain) - Top Albums of 2008 | 39 |
