[9] The lead single, "Gamla Ullevi" / "Skisser för sommaren", was released on 14 June 2010, the same day as the band announced the album details.

En plats i solen sounds more like the soundtrack to hungover July Sundays and sentimental August evenings, where the music soothes and Jocke Berg's lyrics add comforting thoughts about transience and the eternal search for something more.

"[12] Glenn Olsen of Lydverket wrote: "En plats i solen is the band's ninth album, and is released just over six months after their eighth, Röd.

[...] The album alternates nicely between uptempo club bangers, mid-tempo pop songs and delicate ballads, such as the beautiful closing duet 'Passagerare' where Jocke Berg is joined by the jazz singer Rebecka Törnquist.

Although this record in many ways has a lighter and brighter overall expression than the previous releases, they manage to balance the album's 10 songs both with catchy and danceable hits, but also the dark ballads that are the very trademark of the band.