Silent Alarm was received to critical acclaim by both critics and musicians; aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalised rating of 82% based on 32 critical reviews which indicates "universal acclaim" [REF].
Romano and Glazer compared Silent Alarm to U2's early work,[REF][REF] while Walters claimed that it distills "twenty-five years of spiky British rock, from The Cure to Blur to hot Scots Franz Ferdinand" [REF].