Amazon.co.uk Review
Not content with being the cult heroes of thousands, the members of
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have set their sights on becoming the idols of millions with
Worlds Apart. They're still as noisy as ever, but they've further toned down the weirdness that had already started fading away on their previous album,
Source Tags and Codes. What's left is the strongest songwriting this band have yet displayed, and their best--and most accessible--album yet. "Caterwaul" has an energetic, rolling bounce that sure to make it a live standard for years to come, while the title track manages to fit years of punk vitriol into three minutes of understated anger. That any of these songs wouldn't sound out of place on the soundtrack to any American teen drama is no disrespect. The new sound of the Trail of Dead is subtler, but their music is just as revolutionary. And with
Worlds Apart, they're taking themselves directly into the mainstream.
--Robert Burrow
Description
Fourth album from one of America's strangest major label bands follows 2002's universally acclaimed 'Source Tags And Codes'. On this album they take their crashing, tumbling barrage of rock noise in unexpected directions, incorporating folk, punk and psychedelia and drawing lyrical inspiration fromVictorian Britain, Che Guevara and the cult of celebrity. Includes the title-track single. This version also sports a DVD featuring live performances, studio footage and home movies.