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All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu

Rufus Wainwright

All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu

Sixth studio album from the Montreal-based singer-songwriter features only his piano and voice

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6.8

Label
Polydor
UK Release date
05/04/2010
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  1. 10.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    It requires some work from the listener, but this is Wainwright’s most moving and durable album to date
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  2. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    Listening to this album is like being introduced to a newly grown up, mature artist. His delivery has an incredible sincerity to it and as the album progresses it is as if we are gradually unwrapping an idea of what it means to be Rufus Wainwright right now
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  3. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    All Days Are Nights is the sound of the man doing what he does best: bruised, tender, emotional and, at times, quite brilliant music
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Perhaps not as immediately gratifying as some of Wainwright’s previous material, but all the more satisfying for it
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  6. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The move from functional singer-songwriter to modern renaissance man seems complete... Splendid
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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Like a Shakespearean monologue you’re either going to be living every moment with the narrator or gazing on indifferently as your attention drifts away
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  8. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    It's Wainwright's most nakedly emotional music yet
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  9. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    There are tracks such as ‘Les Faux D’artifice T’appellant’ to discover, which are as beautifully accomplished and vulnerable as ever
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  10. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    Still beautiful, hopefully a little less doomed, and always iconic
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  11. 6.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   Eye Weekly

    The less experimental treatments are the ones that hint at Wainwright’s mushy core, which seems to be the heart of his showy posturing
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  13. 6.0 |   The Times

    Seems permanently suspended in a place between exhaustion and delirium, seemingly delegating most of the high emotion to his own ostentatious playing
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  14. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Capture a musician at once compelled to document his emotions and deeply conflicted about sharing them in so public a way
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  15. 6.0 |   The Observer

    What unites these disparate elements are the themes of piano and voice, love and the fear of loss. If it is a grab-bag, it is a very deep one
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  16. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  17. 6.0 |   Uncut

    An album that refuses to unravel itself without a fight
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  18. 4.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    You can see what he's getting at. It's called showing off
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