World Outside

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]

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Professional ratings

Review scores
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]

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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.

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

The Psychedelic Furs

• Richard Butler – vocals
• John Ashton – guitar
• Tim Butler – bass

Additional personnel

• Don Yallech – drums
• Knox Chandler – guitar
• Joe McGinty – keyboards