Worlds Away (Strange Advance album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Worlds Away

| type = Studio album

| artist = Strange Advance

| cover = World's_Away_album_cover.png

| alt =

| released = November 1982

| recorded = * February–May 1982

August 1982

| venue =

| studio = *Little Mountain Sound Studios

Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia

| genre = Rock, new wave

| length =

| label = Capitol

| producer = Bruce Fairbairn

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = 2WO

| next_year = 1985

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r50341|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

Worlds Away is the debut studio album by Canadian new wave band Strange Advance, released November 1982. It featured two hit Canadian singles, "She Controls Me" and "Kiss in the Dark". Strange Advance was subsequently nominated for a Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year in 1983.

The 7" single for "She Controls Me" contains a b-side track called "Lost in Your Eyes" which was later released on the Over 60 Minutes with... Strange Advance compilation.

Tomas Mureika of AllMusic calls this album one of Canada's most underrated new wave debut releases.

Four singles were released from this album, not including a dance mix of "Love Games" which was a club hit in England.

According to a 2000 e-mail exchange with keyboardist Drew Arnott, Worlds Away was performed with Yamaha CS-80, Roland Jupiter-8, and Mellotron M400 synthesizers. Drums were performed with a Roland TR-808 augmented by live tom-toms and cymbals.

Track listing

{{Tracklist

| headline = Top side

| title1 = She Controls Me

| writer1= Drew Arnott, Darryl Kromm

| length1 = 2:56

| title2 = Love Games

| writer2= Arnott

| length2 = 3:47

| title3 = One Chance in a Million

| writer3= Arnott

| length3 = 4:11

| title4 = Sister Radio

| writer4= Kromm

| length4 = 5:20

| title5 = Automatic Sighs

| writer5= Arnott, Kromm

| length5 = 4:38

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bottom side

| title6 = Worlds Away

| writer6= Arnott

| length6 = 7:01

| title7 = Kiss in the Dark

| writer7 = Arnott, Kromm

| length7 = 3:54

| title8 = Hold on to the Nite

| writer8= Arnott

| length8 = 4:30

| title9 = Watermusic

| writer9 = Robert Minden

| length9 = 0:54

| title10 = Prisoner

| writer10 = Peter Bjerring, Kromm

| length10 = 4:14

| title11 = Worlds Away (Reprise)

| note11 = unlisted track

| writer11= Arnott

| length11 = 1:11

}}

Album credits

=Personnel=

Darryl Kromm - lead vocals, guitar
Drew Arnott - keyboards, drums, backing vocals, electronic percussion
Paul Iverson - bass, backing vocals
Robert Minden - waterphones
Paul Dean - guitar on Prisoner
Bob Rock - rhythm guitar on Prisoner
Dawnlea Tait - backing backing vocals and voice over on Hold on to the Night
James McCulloch - additional guitar on Automatic Sighs
Peter Bjerring - piano on Worlds Away
Bryan Adams - additional backing vocals on She Controls Me
Bruce Fairbairn - assorted backing vocals

=Production=

Bruce Fairbairn - producer
Bob Rock - engineer
Lindsay Kidd - engineer

Footnotes

=Citations=

{{Reflist

| colwidth = 30em

| refs =

{{cite web

| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/worlds-away-r50341

| title = Worlds Away > Strange Advance > Review

| author = Tomas Mureika

| work = allmusic.com

| publisher = Allmusic

| accessdate = 19 February 2011

}}

{{cite web

| url = http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2011-02-20T06%3A06%3A24Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=7406743&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus

| title = AMICUS No. 7406743

| author = Library and Archives Canada

| author-link = Library and Archives Canada

| work = collectionscanada.gc.ca

| publisher = canada.gc.ca/main_e.html

| accessdate = 19 February 2011

}}

{{cite web

| url = http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/S/Strange_Advance.html

| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130101002017/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/S/Strange_Advance.html

| url-status = usurped

| archive-date = 1 January 2013