Released in 1985 Worlds Apart was the third album from UK's Anarcho-punk band Subhumans. It featured fifteen tracks- which saw the band blending their punchy punk gallops ‘n’ rages, with touches of straight rock, metal, light prog/ experimental rock and reggae. With the song craft being (relatively) more muti facility/ shifting in its tone- than many of their anarcho-punk brethren. Here from Pirates Press Records- as either a Vinyl LP, or a CD reissue of the album. I’m reviewing the former of these two formats.

The CD comes presented in a black and yellow coloured mini card gatefold. This takes in the original album art- with its front cover being an illustration of a pair of hands holding a frame off-angle over the top of falling from a tower block figure.  As well as the CD, we also get a mini poster of the cover artwork and full lyrics with the release.
 
Worlds Apart was the band's last full-length album before they initially split up in 1986 (though they were later grouped in the ’90s and 2004-towards). And as final records go it’s still full of spirit, flare, and invention. I’m not sure why the band split, but you certainly don’t feel that they have run out of stream or passion here.  
 
The album's fifteen tracks have runtimes between just over a minute, and up to nearing five. so, we get a nice balance of breakneck no-nonsense punch, and more expansive/ shifting composition. 

The album opens up with the chugging-slightly- angularly instrument track “33322” which is bass & tight snare fed, with the guitar having an almost Hawkwind-like moodiness to it. Moving through the first side we go from upfront drum batter-meets-surf punk circle dance & stop-start structure of “Apathy”. There’s “Fade Apart” which starts off with a punk reggae strut-edged meets baying ‘n’ swarming rock, before taking off into slight metallic ribbed punk gallop. We have the chugging riff craft, call-response chorus, and scrawling guitar solo tones of “Pigman”.
 
In the second half of the record, we move from the speeding gallop ‘n’ drum-smashing roll of “Can’t Hear The Words”.  Onto the chanting mantra-like vocals and bounding ‘n’ fork riff of “Straightline Thinking” which has an almost meaty slightly eastern sound prog punk breakdown/ groove appearing later on.  Thorough to the moody guitar chugg ‘n’ bound meets reggae strutting percussion of “Powergames".
 
As an album Worlds Apart managers a good and even balance between punk sear ‘n’ spit, and the more progressive/genre-blended elements. And it’s great to it getting a reissue here.