Out of the Game

rollingstone

What to do after finishing your first opera and a 19-disc anthology of your life's work? If you're Rufus Wainwright, you make the L.A.-style Great American Pop Album your late mom, singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle, never felt like making in the 1970s. His formal mastery is so complete it's hilarious, like Albert Pujols playing stickball. But […]

pitchfork

Rufus Wainwright's Mark Ronson-produced seventh album represents the singer's return to more formal song structure, but it also marks a break from the florid, operatic pop that defined his first five albums.