World Outside

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". World Outside is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs, released on 1 July 1991 by Columbia Records in the US.[1] It includes the single "Until She Comes", which hit No. 1 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart in September 1991.[2][3] "Don't Be a Girl" was the second single.[4]

Production

Completed in seven weeks, the album was produced by Stephen Street and the band.[5][6] Knox Chandler contributed on guitar.[7] 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.[8] The band started recording a week after their tour for Book of Days ended, and used few overdubs.[9][10] Singer Richard Butler constructed lyrics that were more personal than on previous albums.[11] He decided to use cello on some tracks after growing tired of employing a saxophone.[12] "All About You" was edited down from two jams that totaled 30 minutes.[13]

Critical reception

Template:Album ratings The Los Angeles Times wrote that "there is once more the bracing tension of understated melodic elegance scraping against understated musical discord."[14] 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."[15] The Calgary Herald opined that "Richard sings wearily of romance in ruins... It's all so shoulder-shrugging boring."[16]

The Globe and Mail deemed the album "a crafty return to the edgy, intelligent rock of its earliest incarnation."[17] The Boston Globe called it "B-level pop songs."[18] The Vancouver Sun panned the "sameness in synth sounds, sameness in melodies, sameness in meter."[19] 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."[20]

The Wisconsin State Journal listed the album as one of the 10 best of 1991.[21]

Track listing

All songs written by the Psychedelic Furs.

  1. "Valentine" – 4:47
  2. "In My Head" – 3:30
  3. "Until She Comes" – 3:50
  4. "Don't Be a Girl" – 3:46
  5. "Sometimes" – 4:14
  6. "Tearing Down" – 5:22
  7. "There's a World" – 4:45
  8. "Get a Room" – 3:45
  9. "Better Days" – 4:32
  10. "All About You" – 4:01

Personnel

The Psychedelic Furs

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts)[22] 108
UK Albums Chart[23] 68

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World Outside overview". allmusic.com. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burliuk, Greg (3 October 1991). "World Outside The Psychedelic Furs". Entertainment. The Kingston Whig-Standard. p. 1.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "WLink"./chart-history/ "'Until She Comes' - Chart History". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.). Retrieved 31 January 2010. {{cite magazine}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eichenberger, Bill (12 December 1991). "Psychedelic Furs Back in Form". Features. The Columbus Dispatch. p. 88.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fox, Barry (2 March 1992). "Psychedelic Furs fly high". The Patriot-News. p. C5.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World Outside by The Psychedelic Furs". Billboard. Vol. 103, no. 33. 17 August 1991. p. 68.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shaw, Norman S. (6 September 1991). "P-Furs' new disc is strong effort". The Indianapolis Star. p. C7.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blackstock, Peter (5 November 1991). "Furs' unearth identity". Austin American-Statesman. p. D6.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sigworth, David (6 December 1991). "Furs brush off past instabilities". Weekend Guide. New Haven Register. p. 37.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Considine, J.D. (5 March 1992). "Psychedelic Furs restore a raw edge to their music". The Baltimore Sun. p. 1G.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harrison, Tom (14 February 1992). "Psychedelic Furs on heartfelt tour". The Province. p. C25.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harris, Paul A. (7 November 1991). "A Solid Core Makes Fur Fly Psychedelically". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 1E.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mitchell, Justin (16 February 1992). "Psychedelic Furs Stripped to the Skin". Weekend. Rocky Mountain News. p. 138.
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  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Erskine, Evelyn (31 August 1991). "The Psychedelic Furs World Outside". Ottawa Citizen. p. F3.
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  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World Outside, The Psychedelic Furs". The Globe and Mail. 5 September 1991. p. C1.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sullivan, Jim (6 September 1991). "Psychedelic Furs' surprise show turns into a yawner". Arts & Film. The Boston Globe. p. 26.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Potter, Greg (14 September 1991). "Pop/Rock". Vancouver Sun. p. D23.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sinclair, David (28 June 1991). "Melancholia sounds modern". Features. The Times.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kovalic, John (8 December 1991). "Holiday's Best Bets in Music". Wisconsin State Journal. p. 1I.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing 12 August 1991". Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Psychedelic Furs". Official Charts. Retrieved 15 February 2023.

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