Talk about a comedown: fresh off a disco-diva detour with Hercules and Love Affair (see their club-clobbering crossover single, "Blind"), Antony Hegarty has shaken the glitter from his hair and returned to the dark of the cabaret for this teaser EP, which serves as an introduction to his forthcoming The Crying Light. Beginning with that album's first single (and this release's title song), Another World operates against a stark backdrop of glistening piano keys, brushed cymbals and supple strings. While it's gone through several phases at shows, "Shake That Devil" sounds sufficiently possessed in the studio setting, Hegarty's angelic vocals wrapped in wraith-like feedback. It remains that way until the halfway mark, when it makes a sudden segue from queasy minimalism to an R&B-schooled strut, a near-religious experience driven by steady drumbeats and a squealing sax. The rest of the EP sounds subdued by comparison — conservative even —but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. With nothing but a few art-damaged flourishes interrupting his ethereal flow, Hegarty leads us into the outer reaches of his puzzling psyche. He's as haunting — and haunted — as ever.