Worlds Apart might be a noble failure, but it would probably be worse if it just revisited previous successes.
It's a heroic monster of an album.
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead take an entirely different route with Worlds Apart, and in doing so have produced one of the most cluttered, awkward, and unfocused albums in recent memory.
Worlds Apart is an aspiration, an apology, the sound of confusion.
For this first time in their career, the band’s grandiose vision has swallowed them whole, resulting in a bloated misfire that is a distant memory of the band who seemed so assured and commanding on Source Tags and Codes.
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