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- Summary: The singer-songwriter self-produced (with the help of Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant) this follow-up to 'Want Two.' Richard Thompson guests.
- Record Label: Geffen
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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Top Track
Going To A Town | |
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I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced I'm gonna see some folks who have already... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 33
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Mixed: 10 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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Complex, melodramatic, ambitious, vain, beautiful and frequently magnificent - Release the Stars may not yield many chart hits, but it feels like an album that will endure.
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It’s as warm and forgiving and generously tender a collection of songs as you’ll hear all year.
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His melodies — and what melodies they are — are drowned out by the bombast. But he still yearns more beautifully than anyone.
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BillboardThough the final third of the album drags a touch as Wainwright lets up on the heart-pounding melodrama, the highs here are exceptional. [19 May 2007]
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Release the Stars is a coherent, sophisticated exposition of the usual Wainwright themes, but it won’t be the shooting-into-mainstream pop-rock opus Wainwright was potentially hoping for.
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The real problem with Stars is that the most poignant, affecting songs sound like natural, and somewhat neutral, follow-ups to his other songs.
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The outlandish baroque-cubed excess here, from the warbling chorales to the bleating woodwinds, weighs down track after track after track after track.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 46 out of 58
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Mixed: 9 out of 58
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Negative: 3 out of 58
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JasonV.Aug 3, 2007
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ElizabethAMay 15, 2007Simply amazing. Rufus has definitely done it again.
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EdwardRMay 30, 2007
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wanderMay 3, 2007best album from rufus - great job
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joser.rMay 22, 2007
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MattD.May 22, 2007The production is just too much after a while, but his mind is very active, leading to quite a few thrilling moments.
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elizagMay 17, 2007
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