Should the World Fail to Fall Apart is the debut album by the British solo artist Peter Murphy, formerly of the gothic rock band Bauhaus.

[4][5] The album contains Murphy's covers of Magazine's "The Light Pours Out of Me" and Pere Ubu's "Final Solution.

[8] Trouser Press wrote: "If Murphy could remove the melodrama from his delivery, a lot of the songs might have been quite nice.

"[9] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called the album "the least perfunctory" of Murphy's solo releases.

In July 2011, Cherry Red Records released a 25th anniversary deluxe edition of the album with a bonus disc of 13 B-sides and remixes: