Crossing the Rubicon is the third studio album by the Swedish new wave band The Sounds, released on 2 June 2009.

The track "Home Is Where Your Heart Is" is featured on the second part of the 5th season of the MTV reality show The Hills.

[4] These two features were also noted by the German Sonic Seducer magazine although their author marked a melancholy in tracks like "Crossing The Rubicon" and "Midnight Sun" that was allegedly new for The Sounds.

The band's image of "themselves as swaggering, pioneering visionaries" meant employing a backwards perspective instead of looking forward.

[5] The Spin magazine's reviewer praised the tracks "4 Songs & a Fight" and "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake", but found the album generally too monotonous.