Album Review: Dreams Of Being Dust by The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die

Hands on an empty globe, the illusion of place. The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die have long been a shining example of how to progress throughout a career. With each new release, they've turned over a new stone - whether it was the meek, acoustically-driven emo of 2015's Harmlessness or the way that 2021's Illusory Walls added a proggy, post-hardcore twist that wouldn't have sounded out of place in Circa Survive's catalog. The challenge following Illusory Walls - a grand, sweeping magnum opus - was always going to be how TWIABP could possibly improve on something so emotionally resonating and musically all-encompassing.

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