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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "Release The Stars" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.9
Users rating: 9.6 |
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Release: 15 May 2007
Label: Geffen Records
Genre: Pop
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 10.0 |
Relax gentle readers, its good. It's great in fact òÀ" an instant classic. But it's different.
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| Entertainment Weekly |
Rating: 8.3 |
Wainwright reaches for the Stars on his new CD, with all sorts of bells and whistles competing with the undeniable melodies.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 8.0 |
The 33-year-old singer-songwriter is abundantly aware of how gifted he is: modesty and self-doubt are not foremost among the characteristics of a man who recently dared to recreate Judy Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, an event famed as "the greatest night in showbiz history".
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| The Independent |
Rating: 8.0 |
He's brutally unrepentant, in the billet-doux to a one-night stand in "Tulsa", about trampling on the sensitivities of a "fat guy" bystander; and in "Between My Legs", he elevates love to apocalyptic levels, fantasising about escaping with his lover via an underground river as the world above is destroyed by war: against his desire, he suggests, the rest of humanity counts for nothing. Well, at least he's honest.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
This is a record of extremes, with more restraint than ever before.
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| Slant Magazine |
Rating: 7.0 |
The tracks are often great (both "Between My Legs" and "Slideshow" are among his best songs), but the album itself is merely good.
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| IndieLondon |
Rating: 6.0 |
Release The Stars is an interesting effort that gives rise to some excellent highs but also some crushing, mood-altering lows.
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Users comments
| Georgia |
Rating: 10.0 |
His use of creative metaphors and creative melodies and harmonic lines create a very thought-provoking atmosphere. He is relaxing without putting you to sleep. Between My Legs is an instant classic. |
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