"...Brand New Eyes does have a few missteps though. The tracklist could have been arranged a bit better (placing "Looking Up" and "Where The Lines Overlap" together was a mistake, as they both concern the band itself and start out musically similar), and "Looking Up" is the only Paramore song I've heard that I really don't like that much. But still, the album is a fitting follow-up to Riot! There's just enough maturation from the band to keep naysayers from saying "I told you so!" and the typical mind-blowing vocal performances from Williams save the band in the few moments where they falter. In the past, Paramore became more popular than their peers simply by being better, but now I think they're discovering that they'll need to be different to continue to impress their ever-growing fanbase. Brand New Eyes shows that they have the potential - now they've just got to live up to it and create the classic album the fans know they can make."

- Sputnik Music