World Outside | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1 July 1991 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1990−91 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, art rock, pop | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Stephen Street, the Psychedelic Furs | |||
The Psychedelic Furs chronology | ||||
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World Outside is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs, released 1 July 1991 by Columbia Records in the US. [2] It includes the single "Until She Comes", which hit No. 1 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart in September 1991. [3] [4] "Don't Be a Girl" was the second single. [5]
Completed in seven weeks, the album was produced by Stephen Street and the band. [6] [7] Knox Chandler contributed on guitar. [8] The three core band members tried to be more open to collaborating with the additional musicians, rather than always directing how songs should be played. [9] The band started recording a week after their tour for Book of Days ended, and used few overdubs. [10] [11] Singer Richard Butler constructed lyrics that were more personal than on previous albums. [12] He decided to use cello on some tracks after growing tired of employing a saxophone. [13] "All About You" was edited down from two jams that totaled 30 minutes. [14]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Calgary Herald | D [15] |
Chicago Tribune | [16] |
Los Angeles Times | [17] |
Rolling Stone | [18] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [19] |
St. Petersburg Times | [20] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 3/10 [21] |
The Los Angeles Times wrote that "there is once more the bracing tension of understated melodic elegance scraping against understated musical discord." [17] The Ottawa Citizen determined that the band "maintains the most irresistible aspects of its art-rock sound including the melancholy underbelly, but it also focuses them into a commanding pop songs." [22] The Calgary Herald opined that "Richard sings wearily of romance in ruins... It's all so shoulder-shrugging boring." [15]
The Globe and Mail deemed the album "a crafty return to the edgy, intelligent rock of its earliest incarnation." [23] The Boston Globe called it "B-level pop songs." [24] The Vancouver Sun panned the "sameness in synth sounds, sameness in melodies, sameness in meter." [25] The Times concluded that "the album is leavened by a significantly keener sense of melody and somehow pulled into focus by the context of the times." [26]
The Wisconsin State Journal listed the album as one of the 10 best of 1991. [27]
All songs written by the Psychedelic Furs.
Additional personnel
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA Charts) [28] | 108 |
UK Albums Chart [29] | 68 |
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