Out of the game

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Out of the game
Rufus Wainwright's studio album

Publication
(s)

April 20, 2012

admission

May – December 2011

Label (s) Decca Records , Polydor Records

Genre (s)

Pop rock

Title (number)

12

running time

50:28

production

Mark Ronson

Studio (s)

Dunham Sound (Brooklyn) and Sear Sound (Manhattan)

chronology
All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu
(2011) 		Out of the game -

Out of the Game is the seventh studio album of Rufus Wainwright . It was released on April 20, 2012 on Decca Records / Polydor Records . A few days later, on May 1, 2012, it was released in the USA.

History of origin

Mark Ronson produced the album from May 2011 in two studios in New York City . Several guest musicians were involved, z. B. Martha Wainwright , Thomas "Doveman" Bartlett , drummer Andy Burrows , guitarist Nels Cline , members of the Dap-Kings , Sean Lennon , the band Wilco , Miike Snows Andrew Wyatt and Yeah Yeah Yeah's guitarist Nick Zinner .

As Ronson revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone, Wainwright had given him the task of recording and arranging its music in such a way "that people no longer notice how complex it is."

In the video for the first single Out of the Game , actress Helena Bonham Carter , with whom Wainwright is friends, plays a bored librarian.

reception

The album was received mostly positively by the critics. Allmusic awarded 4 out of 5 stars, plattentests.de 8 out of 10 points. Laut.de wrote: "With" Out Of The Game "Rufus Wainwright proves himself again as a fantastic songwriter with unmistakable theatrics at a very high level. In this respect, the all-round successful work does not come up with any surprises. Nonetheless, it is perhaps his most accessible work, because despite all its versatility, it is less opulently furnished and which should please the first-time listener as much as the long-time fan. Mark Ronson has done a great job, he does not put Wainwright in a completely new light, he just has it Little dimmed! ”The German Rolling Stone magazine awarded 4 1/2 stars and ended its review with the sentence:“ The sheer brilliance leaves us exhausted: We have listened to a genius ”.

Track list

All pieces by Rufus Wainwright.

  1. "Out of the Game" - 4:06
  2. "Jericho" - 3:44
  3. "Rashida" - 3:00
  4. "Barbara" - 3:56
  5. "Welcome to the Ball" - 3:26
  6. "Montauk" - 3:57
  7. "Bitter Tears" - 3:32
  8. "Respectable Dive" - ​​4:55
  9. "Perfect Man" - 3:58
  10. "Sometimes You Need" - 3:21
  11. "Song of You" - 4:51
  12. "Candles" - 7:42
iTunes bonus track
  2. "WWIII" (co-written by Guy Chambers ) - 3:56

Chart successes

Out of the Game reached number 35 on the Billboard 200 , number 22 in the German album charts and number 5 in the British album charts.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c http://www.allmusic.com/album/out-of-the-game-mw0002301177
  2. ↑ German Roling Stone Magazin, issue 211, May 2012, page 58
  3. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.de/news/mektiven/article287874/helena-bonham-carter-singt-rufus-wainwright-neuer-clip-zu-out-of-the-game.html
  4. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/out-of-the-game/rufus-wainwright
  5. ↑ http://www.plattentests.de/rezi.php?show=9313
  6. ↑ http://www.laut.de/Rufus-Wainwright/Out-Of-The-Game-(Album)
  7. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.de/reviews/alben/article289699/rufus-wainwright-out-of-the-game.html
  8. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/out-of-the-game-mw0002301177/awards
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  10. ↑ http://chartarchive.org/a/rufus+wainwright