| Ratings | |
| All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars | 4.5 Stars |
| Metacritic (Metascore 0-100, Weighted Average of Reviews from USA and UK) | 77 |
| Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) | 6.5 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Epitonic (USA) - Top Albums of 2011 | 15 |
| Guitar World (USA) - Top Albums of 2011 | 17 |
| Clash (UK) - Top Albums of 2011 | 25 |
| Drowned in Sound (UK) - Top Albums of 2011 | 63 |
| State (Ireland) - Top Albums of 2011 | 73 |
| musicOMH (UK) - Top Albums of 2011 | 30 |
| Visions (Germany) - Top Albums of 2011 | 35 |