Want One

One thing I have been thinking I have to post for the last week now is that everyone should check out Rufus Wainwright's new album, Want one. I'm not a professional music critic, so I don't have the flaky words to describe how good it is... All I know is that it leaves me wanting two.

Want One [due Sept. 23, 2003, on DreamWorks Records] is a presentable, accessible entity,” Wainwright explains. "Want Two will have some of the more daunting tracks, the operatic, weird stuff, some heavy numbers that relate to my classical sensibilities." Not that the initial volume eschews the daunting, the weird or the heavy, all of which have emerged as distinctive arrows in Wainwright's ambitious, gloriously stylish musical quiver.

Can't wait for the operatic weird stuff, and I am imagining what it will be like now. Since I bought his first two albums, Rufus Wainwright (1998) and Poses (2001), last year, he has joined the ranks of one of the musicians I get genuinely excited about and wait for the next album. ( Joining the ranks of Olu Dara )

Kelly, if your reading this, I recommend making your way to Stockholm this weekend for his concert.

You can listen to two full tracks from his new album here, and see some videos from previous albums here.