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Worlds Apart is the fourth studio album by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. It was released on January 25, 2005 by Interscope Records and reached #92 on the UK Albums Chart. The album's first single, "The Rest Will Follow", was played on college radio and on some alternative stations throughout America. "Caterwaul" also received some airplay. Worlds Apart sold 13,000 copies in its first week of release in America, and went on to sell 56,000 albums in total, approximately half of what Source Tags & Codes sold in America.

The album release was postponed from the winter of 2004 to January 2005 by Interscope to protect it from late year releases by Eminem (also released on Interscope) and Destiny's Child., in effect giving a better selling market. Vocalist Conrad Keely commented: <blockquote>"I have constant anxiety that the record won't sell. We hope we appeal to not just people of this generation, but people of future generations. We're trying to do something that's timeless and timely. Something that's culturally significant. To have it overlooked would be, for me, a nightmare." However, Interscope insisted that he cite and clear all sources of his art, much of which was found in museums around the world. Given the improbability of the task, illustrator Cyril Van der Haegen was hired to paint Keely's design and tweak various elements. Keely also summarized the theme of the collage:
"I wanted an allegory depicting the history of human conflict. I wanted everybody to be fighting, like in Marvel Comics' Secret Wars, where all the superheroes are fighting each other. I actually wanted to sneak in one of the New Mutants."

The album so far has a score of 67 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". E! Online gave it an A− and called it "killer stuff for any frame of mind." Yahoo! Music UK gave it eight stars out of ten and called it "A frequently astonishing album that combines bruising rock and limp wristed flourish in almost equal measure." Playlouder gave it four stars out of five and called it "a delicately violent piece of art." The A. V. Club gave it a favorable review and stated that "With Worlds Apart, the band takes a confident, blind leap toward a potentially confounding future, and lands solidly and triumphantly." Spin gave it a B and stated that "Between these boy noise roils you can see how much the band want to be their generation's Yes." Other reviews are either average, mixed, or negative: Mojo gave the album three stars out of five and stated that "for all that bombast there's a disappointing, un Texan restraint." The Village Voice gave it a mixed review and stated that "the band relies almost entirely on Keely, who dabbles in major chorded piano balladry, a Southern rock opera complete with down home piano and backup voices, whispery Beth Orton style trip hop, and high pitch heart on sleeve emoting. It's all so precious; let's hope they still break shit live." Drawer B also gave it a very mixed review and said that "Trail of Dead sounds utterly reinvigorated yet dangerously reinvented." NME, however, gave it a score of three out of ten and said that the album "reads like a suicide note of a band that's tried to intellectualise its place in the canon of Western music and, in doing so, recognised its own irrelevance."

"Worlds Apart" is a protest song, bemoaning the current state of American popular culture and recent United States foreign policy, specifically the War on Terrorism, also against MTV, soccer moms, and the state of parenting in today's society. It makes explicit reference to the September 11, 2001 attacks with the lyrics "How they laugh as we shovel the ashes / Of the twin towers. / Blood and death, we will pay back the debt / Of this candy store of ours." These lyrics are also briefly heard in a chanted reprise of this song, at the end of "The Best".

"Let It Dive" was featured in the EA Sports video game MVP Baseball 2005. "Will You Smile Again?" was the emotional charge in a scene to end of 7th episode titled "Hurts" of The Shield in season 4. It also appears in the Codemasters video game Colin McRae: Dirt 2 and the 2005 movie Goal!. "Caterwaul" can be heard in the 2007 movie The Invisible (2007 film), where the main character is watching a girl dance to the music. "The Rest Will Follow" can be heard at the end of Letterkenny episode 3 of season 5.