The World Is Still Here and So Are We is the fourth studio album by British post-hardcore band Mclusky. It was released on 9 May 2025, by Ipecac Recordings.
On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean from 100, the album got a 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" from 12 critic reviews.
Daniel Dylan Wray of Uncut rated the album seven out of ten, describing it as "noisy, riotous, guttural stuff â old-school noise rock toits core â that very much picks up where the band left off."
MusicOMH gave the album a rating of 4.5 and noted, "Scratchy guitar riffs and thunderous bass, all driven by pounding drums, suggest that the last 20 Mclusky-free years have just disappeared in a puff of smoke." AllMusic remarked, "A resounding return, The World Is Still Here and So Are We suggests the planet is that much better with Mclusky back on it." The Line of Best Fit assigned it a rating of eight out of ten, stating "The album not only justifies its existence but also adds something vital to the band's legacy. It's messy, lean, sharp, and relentless. Not cleaned up. Just tuned up and turned loose."
Kerrang! described the album as a "remarkably consistent collection after 21 years probably should be too, but somehow isn't, as mclusky always offered a safe â and strange â pair of hands," giving it a score of four out of five, while Blabbermouth noted, "The open-ended nature of it all creates a sense of mystique and makes "the world is still here and so are we" so damn compelling: it doesn't matter whether any of us can fully understand what's going on or what the point is when it sounds this good."
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.