7.2
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#24,485
All Time
12
Tracks
“After almost a decade working in other fields – most notably on his second opera and a project putting Shakespeare’s sonnets to music – Rufus Wainwright has recorded his first straightforwardly pop album since 2012’s Out of the Game. Whereas that record, produced by Mark Ronson, was immersed in 70s soft-rock sounds, Unfollow the Rules marks a welcome return to the opulent orchestration of Wainwrig”
“Unfollow The Rules will come as a relief to fans who thought Rufus Wainwright had abandoned the mainstream. The singer-songwriter’s spent an increasing amount of time pursuing operatic and Shakespearean interests, and the last time he went pop – on 2012’s Out Of The Game – he worked with Mark Ronson to deconstruct his baroque approach to composition. His ninth studio album wears its theatrical i”
“Rufus Wainwright’s first original album in eight years isn’t so much a reinvention as an opulently crafted highlight reel, a career-spanning sampler of the singer’s many styles and guises.”
“Singer-songwriter's ninth album of original material is a stately pop throwback full of his signature vocal grandeur”
