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     Artist  | Rufus Wainwright
     Title   | Release The Stars
     Genre   | Alternative                          Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 55:09
     Label   | Geffen Records                       Store   | 2007
     Catalog | 602547301610                         Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 855 kbps                             Size    | 353.17 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Do I Disappoint You                                         4:40
     02. Going To A Town                                             4:06
     03. Tiergarten                                                  3:26
     04. Nobody's Off The Hook                                       4:27
     05. Between My Legs                                             4:26
     06. Rules And Regulations                                       4:05
     07. Not Ready To Love                                           5:51
     08. Slideshow                                                   6:21
     09. Tulsa                                                       2:19
     10. Leaving For Paris N 2                                       4:52
     11. Sanssouci                                                   5:16
     12. Release The Stars                                           5:20
 Notes  
     A Juno-winning, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter whose lush, theatrical
     pop harks back to the traditions of Tin Pan Alley, cabaret, and even opera,
     Rufus Wainwright emerged with his self-titled debut in 1998. Quickly rising
     from club residencies to international headliner status, his fifth studio
     album, 2007's Release the Stars, became his most commercially successful to
     date, with a reach that included the Top 30 of the Billboard 200 and as
     high as the Top Five in the UK and Norway.
     Demonstrating his appreciation for the vocal era as well as for her
     standing as a gay icon, he delivered the Judy Garland tribute Rufus Does
     Judy at Carnegie Hall - his first live album - that same year. Challenging
     his composing and arranging skills, he premiered his first opera, Prima
     Donna, in 2009 (a recording followed in 2015), and 2016's Take All My
     Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets set select poems to Wainwright's music. It
     included such esteemed guests as Helena Bonham Carter, Carrie Fisher, and
     Florence + the Machine's Florence Welch. Wainwright returned with his first
     pop album in eight years, Unfollow the Rules, in 2020.
     If ever there was an artist that embodied both the urbane popular
     songsmithing of Cole Porter and the epic winged grandeur of Richard Wagner
     it is Rufus Wainwright. Having not so much perfected as succumbed to this
     yin-yang pull on his laboriously ambitious and intermittently inspired 2003
     and 2004 albums Want One and Want Two, Wainwright once again delivers a
     baroque collection of songs on 2007's Release the Stars.
     Recorded at least partially in Berlin and London with Pet Shop Boys lead
     Neil Tennant, the album finds Wainwright casting himself as a kind of
     expatriate torch singer, a veritable Marlene Dietrich of emotion who, as he
     laments on "Going to a Town," is "so tired of America." In that sense,
     Release the Stars is at once intensely personal and utterly theatrical with
     Wainwright playing both ingnue and femme fatale in a series of
     increasingly cinematic pop-operas about true love gone not so much bad, but
     sad.
     He pleads to make it to the other side of town, and possibly the other side
     of monogamy, with his brown-eyed lover in "Tiergarten" and dreams lazily
     about, "the boys that made me lose the blues and then my eyesight" on
     "Sanssouci." While these songs are lushly produced, often with full
     orchestration, and while Wainwright has a knack for pretty, lilting
     melodies and concrete imagery there is nonetheless a distinct lack of pop
     hooks here. In fact, only the chugging T. Rex inspired glam rock of
     "Between My Legs" gets at any real pop meat.
     The main problem is that it's never quite clear if Wainwright, who has
     always been to pop music as cabaret is to Broadway, is dressing opera up as
     pop or vice versa. But when you wear custom Lederhosen as well as
     Wainwright does throughout the album liner notes, does it really matter?

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