Produced by Jim Abbiss, the album finds Placebo segueing into a harder sound and exorcising the ghosts and demons of past relationships. Billboard proclaimed that “Sleeping With Ghosts is glorious; an unrepentant emotional exorcism that cohesively hurdles between the bleak and wounded, the exuberant and defiant.” The album went Top Ten in the U.K. and yielded the handful of evocative singles “The Bitter End,” “This Picture,” “Special Needs” and “English Summer Rain.”

Side A
1. Bulletproof Cupid
2. English Summer Rain
3. This Picture
4. Sleeping With Ghosts
5. The Bitter End
6. Something Rotten

Side B
1. Plasticine
2. Special Needs
3. I’ll Be Yours
4. Second Sight
5. Protect Me From What I Want
6. Centrefolds