my goodness is that man foxy
as for the album, here's my review of it, to be published this friday in the newest billboard:
I don’t blame Rufus Wainwright for making an indulgent album. His voice is beautiful, his phrasing adventurous and his arrangements intense. “Want Two” is an appropriate response to last year’s self-conscious “Want One,” a full exposure his classical and cabaret pedigree under the thin guise of pop. With fleshy string arrangements and grandiose melody lines, Wainwright clearly subscribes to a school of if-you’ve-got-it-flaunt-it. But he could also benefit from an editor -- as “One” and “Two” drop some of the same produce, they might as well have come from the same tree. And, much like his previous three albums, Wainwright has a way of saying much but revealing little; with such a thematically sensitive album, intimacy is just out of reach, intentional or not. Regardless, Wainwright achieves much as a maturing songwriter with “Want Two,” his errant siren songs served well by his vanity, libido and noble intentions
