 The album's closer, the sixteen-minute "The Lightning Strike" was compared with the "grand climax" of "Open Your Eyes" on the last album "Eyes Open".Pitchfork Media's Joshua Love derided the band's music (on previous albums "Final Straw" and "Eyes Open") as "soaring sissy-rock" and said it came easy to them.He felt if "A Hundred Million Suns" had any hits, they are within the first eight minutes; he praised the opener "If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It" saying it captured the band at their best.