Dirty Faces" was released as the album's third single as part of a double A-side with "Stronger". The double A-side was made available as a CD single, cassette tape and 12-inch single on 11 November 2002. An Audio Drive remix of the song appears on the 12-inch and CD releases, the latter of which features the music video. According to Julie Macaskill of Daily Record, the version which appears on the single release is "grittier" compared to the album version. Critical response The song received generally positive reviews from critics. NME critic Barry Nicholson suggested it was the better track from the double A-side and commended its "sleek garage sexiness". He additionally praised the song as smooth and tantalising. A critic from the Daily Mirror described "Angels with Dirty Faces", as well as the album track "Virgin Sexy", as "alive with wry palpitations". Julie Macaskill of Daily Record commended the song's pop and R&B mixture, which she noted as "proof that there is nothing sweeter than the Sugababes". Phil Udell from Hot Press admitted that although it is reminiscent of Destiny's Child's music, the song "lacks the American's sense of style". The Village Voice'''s Jess Harvell criticised "Angels with Dirty Faces" as "generic in the post-swingbeat sense". Commercial performance "Angels with Dirty Faces" appeared on singles charts as part of its double A-side release with "Stronger". In the 23 November 2002 issue of the UK Singles Chart, the single debuted and peaked at number seven, granting the band their third consecutive top ten hit from the album. It appeared in the chart for thirteen weeks, and by April 2010, sold 125,000 copies in the UK, placing it twelfth on the group's best-selling songs list. The double A-side peaked at number thirty-four on the Australian Singles Chart, where it charted for nine weeks. On the New Zealand Singles Chart, it debuted on 23 February 2003 at number forty-three and peaked at number twenty-four sixteen weeks later. The single spent a total of eighteen weeks on the chart, and gave the Sugababes their third consecutive top forty hit in the country. Promotion Products The Sugababes' record label, Universal Island, heavily promoted "Angels with Dirty Faces" through Cartoon Network's animated television series The Powerpuff Girls, and its 2002 film of the same name. 250,000 posters which feature the Sugababes and the Powerpuff Girls were distributed throughout cinemas, while an additional 500,000 posters were