Known as the "lost album,"
Worth is the ill-fated second release by the New Jersey-based synth-pop group
Anything Box. Its 1990 debut album
Peace, released on Sony, was a respectable seller and included two substantial club hits, "Jubilation" and "Living in Oblivion."
Anything Box (lead singer Claude S. and
Dania Morales) traveled to Germany with producer
Gareth Jones (
Erasure,
Depeche Mode) in early 1991 to record the follow up,
Worth. But by this time,
Anything Box was involved in a contract dispute with its label; after a bitter legal battle, the band was allowed to leave Sony, but only if
Worth was shelved. The band eventually was able to realease the album themselves in 2001.
Worth rivals
Depeche Mode's Black Celebration as one of the most beautifully dark synth-pop albums ever made.