Rufus Wainwright: Out of the Game – review

(Polydor)Wainwright defiantly says his seventh studio album is "very Rufus", as if to establish that bringing in Mark Ronson as producer hasn't impinged on his fundamental Rufusness. Quite so: Ronson's keynote retro-soul makes incursions, but Wainwright uses the vibrant horns and female backing crooners as servants to his own romanticism. The result is a Wainwright more open to pop simplicity than before – Barbara, for example, is undiluted 70s soft rock – but still captivated by the heft an...

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