I thought it was Want One - a offer in question, a prime need, an emphatic choice. No it is WANT one - don'geddit. I also don't get the cover art. No one hold the blade of the razor sharp sword. I don't think he is supposed to have the leather palms of myth and lore...but maybe he is. He is Pre-Raphaelite, man encased.

Doesn't matter...because he is Rufus and he is the best New Yorker with Canadian roots or Canadian in New York there is. One day, the two degrees of separation, almost reduced - very excited. The album is pop opera, poperatic, or some other combo...oper-op? Lush, edged glissandos over tuba, fuzzed electric piano...or, behind Bugs Bunny symphony (Leopold!), a hidden banjo showing itself by holding out longer. Songs about being in love with the boy with your uncle's name and mother's eyes. Songs about the strange world we live in where straight men read fashion magazines. His site is now remade, the stark winter images of Poses clothed in arts and crafts - but why in both .php and flash?

More later I am sure after some listenings.