Want Two
Rufus Wainwright

The squeaky strings at the start went for 0.1 one seconds too long so you already know that certain people listening are immediately filtered on arrival and have decided they hate the album. First track has some beautiful vocals and composition. On the one you know I love the refrain before the hook. On peach trees hes obviously going for a Thom Yorke style of vocalisation. It works here tbh and when his voice comes i er the backing vocals its quite angelic. They die down only to pick back up over the vocalist its really awesome stuff. Little Sister is a little overproduced but another incredible vocal performance. This album clearly inspired a lot of indie which came out following this release for better and for worse. The Art teacher is where I first noticed the sucking of air through his teeth, but it really impacts the track and the rest of the album from here. A lot of the tracks past the Art teacher see a noticeable drop in the quality of the vocal performance, the lyrics become uninspired. The ability to hit continuous notes is impressive though, even if the sucking gets more noticeable, which it usually does. The longer the album goes the more over produced and melodramatic it gets, which is a shame cause it started strong. Surely this guy can just turn his head away from the mic while breathing. 5/10

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