That self-interrogation ended up yielding Unfollow the Rules, Wainwright’s inspired new album. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Mitchell Froom, it’s Wainwright’s first unabashedly pop LP since 2012’s Out of the Game, and a reminder of how much fun he can have with a sky-high chorus and a full studio sound.

He made the album last year, and it arrives at last on July 10th, after a three-month delay due to the COVID-19 shutdown. (Wainwright used the time off well, performing a series of intimate home concerts in L.A. “We’re here today to peruse my artistic output,” he says, “and figure out what’s behind the parade.”įor his own Instagram followers and for Rolling Stone’s “In My Room.”)īefore the pandemic hit, he came by Rolling Stone’s New York office to reflect on his life in music, as seen through a selection of his greatest songs.

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright was born in New Yorks Hudson Valley in 1973. Taken together, these songs tell a story with enough drama and beauty for one of Wainwright’s beloved operas. The son of folk music luminaries Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. They range from early conflicts with his two singer-songwriter parents, Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III (who divorced when Rufus was three) through his own years as a downtown NYC star through addiction, recovery, and profound loss up to his present contentment with a marriage and family of his own. Through the years, he’s written songs about all the highs and lows, without ever pulling punches or playing down personal disappointments.

“That’s something I grew up with quite intensely,” Wainwright says of his autobiographical style. “I’d go to my mom’s shows and she’d sing a song about my dad, or vice versa, or a song about me or my sister. They were all imbued with love, all caring songs. Occasionally there were some cheap shots, but mostly they’re very heartfelt homages. It was a circular firing squad of beautiful music. 1.2 Songs written, but not performed, by Wainwright.Original songs Studio recordings įollowing is a list of original songs by Wainwright that have been released on a studio album, EP, soundtrack, compilation album, single, or DVD. Also included is 'Ode to Antidote', a studio-quality promotional single used to promote a perfume by Viktor & Rolf, and 'Patience is a Virtue', an original song available via digital download on Wal-Mart's website with the purchase of Release the Stars. 'Give Me What I Want and Give It to Me Now!' Shrek (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Download mp3 + flac. Songs written, but not performed, by Wainwright įollowing is a chart containing songs originally written or co-written by Wainwright that do not appear on one of his original albums. The list includes songs performed solely by other artists and those that feature Wainwright as a co-lead or backing vocalist.

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