"World Be Gone" is the seventeenth studio album by English synthpop duo Erasure. The album was released through Mute Records on 19 May 2017 in the UK, and 20 May 2017 in North America. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 69, based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".