Wainwright’s seventh studio album, Out of the Game, comes complete with lush throwback production from Mark Ronson, evoking Lou Reed and David Bowie’s more grandiose bedroom albums. It seems that in Ronson, Wainwright has finally found a suitable foil behind the boards able to surround his vintage pipes. The crooner remains an enigma, but new album Out of the Game (Decca) should make him more accessible for Rufus newbs.
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2012.