Heather Phares from
AllMusic wrote that
Habits ran through the same kind of "hyper-literate lyrics and whip-smart hooks" just like
the Killers did, but felt that the band lacked the "huge, and occasionally cumbersome, ambitions that
Brandon Flowers and company possess", so instead they kept the album "focused and catchy, crafting unrepentantly slick songs with huge choruses, and where everything falls into place at exactly the expected moment". Robert Cooke from
Drowned in Sound viewed
Habits negatively and described it as a "cheap barrel of MOR indie rock, cloaked in pointless synths and empty sentiments, over-produced into oblivion", with "inane and childlike" hooks and "shallow" lyrics. The critic noted the "snippets of inspiration" in tracks such as "Sins of My Youth" and "In the Next Room", but nevertheless found that it "burps and farts itself into irrelevance in the same way". == Track listing ==