DreamWorks Records: Rufus Wainwright - Poses - Pop CD

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD
• Label: DreamWorks Records
• Catalog Number: 450 237-2
• Artist: Rufus Wainwright
• Genre: Pop / Singer-Songwriter / Art Pop
• Release Year: 2001
• UPC: 600445023727
• Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed

Product Features

• Format: 1 CD
• Tracks: 13
• Producer: Pierre Marchand (primary)
• Additional Production: Alex Gifford, Ethan Johns, Damian Legassick, Greg Wells
• Executive Producer: Lenny Waronker
• Packaging: Standard jewel case, shrink-wrapped
• Manufactured: In the EU
• LC: 07266

Overview

Poses is the album that turned Rufus Wainwright from a promising debut act into something harder to categorize and easier to love. Released in 2001 on DreamWorks, it arrived two years after his self-titled debut and moved deliberately further into orchestral pop territory — lush, melancholic, and shot through with a cinematic quality that few singer-songwriters of that era were attempting.

The opening track sets the tone immediately. "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" is one of the great album openers of the decade — an inventory of small pleasures and half-hidden self-destruction, delivered over a piano and string arrangement that sounds like it was designed for a much larger room than any club Wainwright was playing at the time.

From there the album rarely lifts its gaze. "Greek Song," "Grey Gardens," "Rebel Prince," "Evil Angel" — the titles alone give a sense of the world Wainwright was building: European, theatrical, emotionally extravagant in the best sense. "The Tower of Learning" runs to nearly seven minutes. "One Man Guy," a cover of his father Loudon Wainwright III's song, is played completely straight.

Producer Pierre Marchand — best known for his work with Sarah McLachlan — gives the record its signature sound: warmly recorded, never cluttered, always serving the song. This is a disc that rewards close listening through good headphones just as well as it fills a room.

Interesting Facts

• Rufus Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York in 1973 into one of folk music's most notable families — his father is Loudon Wainwright III, his mother Kate McGarrigle, and his aunt Anna McGarrigle.
• "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" became one of Wainwright's signature songs and remains among the most recognized tracks of his career, frequently cited in best-of lists of early 2000s pop.
• "Grey Gardens" takes its title from the 1975 documentary film about the reclusive Beale cousins, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — a touchstone of camp and high style that Wainwright has long referenced.
• "One Man Guy" is a cover of a song written by his father Loudon Wainwright III in 1983; Rufus's version transformed it from a sardonic folk piece into something closer to a torch song.
• Pierre Marchand, who produced the bulk of the album, is best known for producing Sarah McLachlan's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy and Surfacing — two of the defining adult pop records of the 1990s.
• Poses was recorded partly in London and partly in Montreal, and its sound reflects both cities — the orchestral ambition of the former and the emotional directness of the latter.

Track Listing

1. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
2. Greek Song
3. Poses
4. Shadows
5. California
6. The Tower of Learning
7. Grey Gardens
8. Rebel Prince
9. The Consort
10. One Man Guy
11. Evil Angel
12. In a Graveyard
13. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Reprise)

Publishers

© 2001 SKG Music L.L.C. Produced, recorded and mixed by Pierre Marchand. Executive Producer: Lenny Waronker. Made in the EU. LC 07266. www.dreamworkrecords.com

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