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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - Release The Stars
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Relax gentle readers, its good. It's great in fact – an instant classic. But it's different. The anticipation as to where Rufus would go next following Want One and Want Two was felt on every street corner throughout the land, speculated by workers at millions of water coolers, bantered between commuters and treatised by barflies nationwide....full text |
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| Entertainment Weekly |
| Last summer, in a rave-reviewed show, Rufus Wainwright channeled Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall, and now he's writing an opera. His ambitions, it seems, are increasingly outsize, and on Release the Stars, his fifth studio album, it feels like a mere pop album can't contain him. Alas, adorned with more strings, horns, choirs, and piccolo flute (!) than ever, his melodies — and what melodies they are — are drowned out by the bombast (see: the syrupy ''Nobody's Off the Hook''). But he still yearns more beautifully than anyone. ...full text |
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| Guardian |
| Rufus Wainwright's fifth album is, he recently said, "going for the sound of cash registers". Once, such naked desire for commercial success and financial reward would have brought on a chorus of boos from the music media. But if anyone has earned the right to be heartily sick of life as a cult success, it's Rufus Wainwright. The 33-year-old singer-songwriter is abundantly aware of how gifted he is: modesty and self-doubt are not foremost among the characteristics of a man who recently dared to recreate Judy Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, an event famed as "the greatest night in showbiz history"....full text |
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