"Secret crime of passion. Body buried in the garden where the roses never grow. Blood curse from long gone yesterdays — doomed sinner homeless, even in death. Outlaws, murderers, their phantoms wander searching for impossible redemption. Dare the darkness. Hear the tormented cry of soul beyond mercy. The lost cry out in song. Cold as an assassin's blade. Burning with the heat of a pistol's breath. Dark and deep as the grave. This recording is timeless as death. It will haunt your dreams and follow you down the shadow-filled street just out of sight." — Jim Dickinson
“[A] dazzling collection of blasted country folk and grimly haunting murder ballads, shot through with harrowing images of death, damnation and eternal suffering, Legendary producer Jim Dickinson (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Big Star) describes the record as ‘timeless as death’ and Frank as ‘the greatest songwriter you never heard’. On the evidence of this, Jim’s right on both counts.” — Allan Jones, UNCUT MAGAZINE
"World Without End is all bullets, blades and guilt without end…. With his low, hanging-judge drawl, Murry sounds as severe and modern as Leonard Cohen, while Frank sings with a deep, gritty authority that may remind you of Warren Zevon — if you don’t already know Frank’s solo work, including his magnificently stark 1972 Vanguard LP, Bob Frank. Tim Mooney’s production here is as antique as a sepia print — but also as immediate as the country anguish he makes in his own band, American Music Club.” — David Fricke, ROLLING STONE
"Nicely unexistential murder ballads, including several over-horror lynchings, a Reconstruction MD mob-killed for healing all races, and righteous Mexican revenge." --- Robert Christgau, Village Voice, Consumer Guide
"[H]orror tras horror, sin que nada impida a la música de World without end envolver al oyente." — Ramón Fernández Escobar, El PAÍS
“lugubrious … miasmic … ambient … eerie.” — Andy Gill, THE INDEPENDENT (UK)
"Bob Frank y John Murry, maestro y aprendiz del folk sureño, reúnen en World Without End una colección de estremecedoras baladas criminales basadas en hechos reales, atroces historias de violencia que los dos músicos exponen con asepsia casi documental … No hay moral en 'World Without End'." — Jesús Lillo, ABC
“The details are grim. The stories are compelling like a Matthew Brady photograph. Glimpses into the lives of the dead. If a collection of music could be consider a page-turner, this might be it.” — Jeff Weiss, MILES OF MUSIC
“Bloodthirsty, of course, but with a strangely alluring beauty all of their own, the ballads on World Without End are encased in sumptuously inventive arrangements …, but live, they operate as a duo, with Murry’s scratchy electric guitar inter-acting with Frank’s more traditionally picked acoustic … The combination of the grizzled gentleman with the acoustic and the terrifying grunge-rocker (actually a sensitive intellectual with a strange way of showing it) makes for a stage show like you’ve never seen … There’s always the danger with these things that there’s an element of artifice involved, but talk to these two for a couple of minutes and you realize that they are the real deal … They certainly don’t belong in the superficial world of the music industry … These guys are on an adventure which is the stuff of dreams, but they remain blissfully unaware, taking each day as it comes and trying hard not to make reality out of art by actually murdering each other. How it all pans out is set to be one of the most intriguing episodes in recent musical history.” — Oliver Gray, AMPLIFIER MAGAZINE
"This ain't for kids." — Hoover, the Lost Outlaw
