- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Jan 25, 2005
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 80 Ratings
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Positive: 63 out of 80
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Mixed: 10 out of 80
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Negative: 7 out of 80
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JRossiApr 1, 2005A huge disappointment considering TOD's other albums. Unfocused, half-realized, a black mark on the band.
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StephenBFeb 2, 2005
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MarkApr 5, 2005Loved ST&C but this is a very disappointing release. Sounds like they tried half-heartedly to grow since ST&C but after 3 years you'd think if they were actually any good they would put something more accomplished than this out.
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JohnRApr 6, 2005NME nailed this one- 'Worlds Apart' reads like a suicide note of a band that's tried to intellectualise its place in the canon of Western music and, in doing so, recognised its own irrelevance.' How a band that seemingly understood pure emotion like no other (Source Tags feels so far away) overeach this badly is beyond me. There's a few good areas, but... ugh.
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AndyKFeb 19, 2005Maybe I had my expectations too high after seeing a lot of these songs live. Maybe its because they sound good bookended by better matieral from Madonna and Source Tags. Either way, the good about equals the bad.
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RyanCFeb 22, 2005A loud collapsing mistake. You have to admire the ambition here, but it is wholly overblown. Source Tags seems far away shamefully. Still they remain a tight and increasingly soulful band, just one without quality control
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[Anonymous]Mar 31, 2005Yuck... I'm all for sonic expansion, but these guys should've just stuck to their old formula. If you don't own Source Tags & Codes, buy that. If you do, listen to it again. Don't bother with this MTV-ready mediocrity.
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ChrisS.Feb 14, 2005Honestly, quite mediocre, especially considering the band who made it.
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Awards & Rankings
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Alternative PressThe least pretentious--and most accessible--thing AYWKUBTTOD have ever released. That's probably because it sounds a lot like your record collection. [Feb 2005, p.92]
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FilterThis is the best album Trail of Dead has ever made. [#13, p.94]
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Simply put, 'Worlds Apart' is a delicately violent piece of art.