Found time to really sit and listen to Wainwright's WANT ONE album last night. There is just something about his voice which grabs me instantly and holds me, let alone the superb lyrics and somewhat lavish arrangements.
Starts with the fantastic OH WHAT A WORLD, the beginning is celestial and you are not quite sure what you're in for, then this big, flat tuba comes in and takes you to circus land. And tell me, is that Bolero he has pinched in the background? That line 'Oh, what a world my parents gave me', dual edged as we all recognise that line and also because of who his parents are.
It never falters, each track a dream and a delight. From the wonderful strangeness of VIBRATE, the weird banjo at the end of 14th STREET to the haunting DINNER AT EIGHT.
My faves: Oh What A World and Beautiful Child.
He has a fab website: www.rufuswainwright.co.uk and I have just got tickets to his December Concert @ Birmingham Symphony.

Thank god for Rufus, an artist with no boundaries!

"...around the planets of my face"
Pretty Things
Track 5