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Giving the album a B+, Tom Lanham with Entertainment Weekly said the "optimistic, lyrically awkward kids spend 10 more happy tracks turning the tables on lethargic slacker cynicism, with Green Day producer Rob Cavallo bridling all that youthful zeal."
| total_length = 39:30
| title1 = Soap Disco
| length1 = 2:40
| title2 = Future Kid
| length2 = 4:44
| title3 = Myself
| length3 = 3:05
| title4 = Oliver
| length4 = 2:38
| title5 = The Never Saga
| length5 = 3:58
| music5 = Levine, Carmichael
| title6 = Loving the Small Time
| length6 = 3:32
| title7 = To Her, with Love
| music7 = Levine, Carmichael
| length7 = 2:52
| title8 = Sleepy Windbreaker
| length8 = 3:05
| music8 = Levine, Carmichael
| title9 = Pantry Queen
| length9 = 3:46
| music9 = Levine, Carmichael, Mickey Madden, Ryan Dusick
| title10 = My Ocean Blue
| length10 = 3:11
| title11 = Captain Splendid
| length11 = 5:59
| music11 = Levine, Carmichael
Personnel
All credits for The Fourth World are adapted from the album's liner notes.
Kara's Flowers
- Adam Levine – lead vocals, lead guitar
- Jesse Carmichael – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Mickey Madden – bass
- Ryan Dusick – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
- Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. – keyboards
- David Campbell – string and horn arrangements
Production
- Rob Cavallo – producer
- Jerry Finn – mixing, engineer
- Ken Allardyce – engineer
- Steve Holroyd – engineer
- Mark Agostino – second engineer
- Billy Bowers – second engineer
- Tony Flores – second engineer
- Barry Goldberg – second engineer
- Brandon Harris – second engineer
- Billy Kinsley – second engineer
- John Srebalus – second engineer
- Mike "Micro" Shaw – guitar tech
- Adam Day – guitar tech
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
Design
- Katherine Delaney – layout
- Kara's Flowers – layout
- Noah Gershman – photography
Release history
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|+Release history for The Fourth World
! scope="col"| Region
! scope="col"| Date
! scope="col"| Edition
! scope="col"| Format
! scope="col"| Label
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! scope="row"| United States
| August 19, 1997
| rowspan="2"| Standard
| rowspan="3"| CD
| Reprise
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! scope="row"| Japan
| October 5, 1997
| WEA Japan
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|-
! scope="row"| United States
| May 25, 2004
| Reissue
| Rhino Entertainment
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! scope="row"| Various
| January 24, 2020
| Limited
| Vinyl
| Music on Vinyl
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