 Though he felt the songs were not arena rock, the band's "sincerity and effortless songwriting" would make them work individually as well as in stadiums.He still felt that critics blasting the band were likely to do the same to "A Hundred Million Suns", though he felt "novel" that the album retained the band's passion they have always had.PopMatters' Ross Langager, who gave the album a rating of 9 out of 10 defended the band on the comparisons made with Coldplay, saying that the band are more focused.