Blog: It's hard to Find a Friend

So I have finally had some time to spend with this album, which came out Tuesday: Rufus is amazing. At first listen I was disappointed, but then I spent more time with these wonderful baroque, theatrical, gaudy pop songs and realized it might be even better than my favorite work of his, Want One . The first opens with flutes, strings, layered vocals, a children's choir and later a grown-up choir. It's almost Gershwin-esque; in all of its sweeping theatrical glory and Rufus' always pleasing tenor, I sort of feel like I'm hearing some really [...]

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