End of World is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Public Image Ltd, released on 11 August 2023 by PiL Official.
[7] In The Irish Examiner, Ed Power gave this album 4 out of 5 stars for mixing "as raw a depiction of grief as you'll hear" on "Hawaii" with "rollicking fury" and some "riotous triumph".
[9] Louder Than War's Tim Cooper wrote that "the best moments are the more musically adventurous ones" on this album and also complains that "there's a plodding, leaden feel to much of the music on these 13 songs and a plodding, leaden mood to Lydon's lyrical preoccupations, which tend towards the old-white-man variety: either complaining, usually about the evils of the modern world, the young people that live in it, wokeness; or just vacuous and silly, and occasionally inappropriate".
[10] David Murphy of musicOMH scored End of World 3 out of 5 stars, opining that "Lydon sounds cracking for the most part, but the music is rather less consistent".
[12] Ben Cardew, writing for Pitchfork rated this release a 6.7 out of 10, stating that Lydon's "voice remains captivating—and, occasionally, surprisingly moving" and particularly praising "Hawaii" as "the rare PiL song since their 2009 reunion where the music lives up to the vocals' ingenuity and character".