- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Jan 25, 2005
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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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UncutNo less viscerally thrilling [than its predecessor] but pursues a number of ear-bogglingly unlikely paths. [Feb 2005, p.73]
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On Worlds Apart Trail of Dead sounds utterly reinvigorated yet dangerously reinvented.
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All these flowery production choices can at times be quite seductive, despite the glaring mishandling of the vocals astride them.
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All in all it's not the noise rush we were craving - and no, it's not as good as Source Tags - but did anyone really think it could be?
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Worlds Apart is an aspiration, an apology, the sound of confusion.
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Worlds Apart is the first TOD album that sounds like it was influenced by a marketing department.
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It’s the tracks that sit closest to the old Trail of Dead that make up a majority of Worlds Apart’s uninspiring moments and also ruin any cohesion that could have otherwise been attained through the heart of the album.
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One of the most cluttered, awkward, and unfocused albums in recent memory.
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BlenderUnexpectedly clean-cut... the time-signature shifts and feedback swirls that earned them minor adulation are sidelined in favor of pushy, arena-sized choruses. [Mar 2005, p.136]
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MojoFor all that bombast, though, there's a disappointing, un-Texan restraint. [Feb 2005, p.94]
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It's all so precious; let's hope they still break shit live.
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The fact that it hides among its excesses a handful of truly excellent rock anthems seems almost like an afterthought, as if, when the band ran out of crazy ideas, they found that there was nothing left to do but write actual songs.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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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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Feb 2, 2011
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Oct 19, 2010
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CaseyPApr 7, 2009