Various - The World Is Gone
by Maarten Schiethart
published: 22 / 9 / 2006

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Messy-sounding and ultimately uninvolving mix of styles on debut album from Various
How many false starts can an album have? Various' 'The World Is Gone' kicks off like a melodic breakbeat album. The second track is sung as a country ballad with spacey effects beneath the female vocals and on track number three we arrive at a'basic channel' dub station - which could be in Berlin. And that's the type of music Various choose to continue playing with. They have a geezer doing vocals too! His interaction works well when #1 goes into #2 yet by #5 he falls through the roof. Perhaps this is just a spoof of XL Recordings, trying to make us believe it's one band. File as so-so mixtape instead.
Track Listing:-
1 Thunnk2 Circle Of Sorrow
3 Don't Ask
4 Hater
5 Soho
6 Lost
7 Sir
8 Sweetness
9 Deadman
10 Today
11 The World Is Gone
12 Fly
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