Want Two

Want Two is the fourth album by American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The album was released on November 16, 2004. Four of the tracks on this album were released in the summer of 2004 as the EP Waiting for a Want on the iTunes music store.

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Want Two
Studio album by Rufus Wainwright
Released	November 16, 2004
Recorded	Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, NYC; also London
Genre	Baroque pop[1] alternative rock[2]
Length	54:08
Label	Geffen
Producer	Marius de Vries Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright chronology
Want One (2003) Want Two (2004) Release the Stars (2007)
Singles from Want Two
"The One You Love" Released: February 28, 2005 (UK)

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Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	B[5]
The Guardian	[6]
Los Angeles Times	[7]
NME	9/10[8]
Pitchfork	6.0/10[9]
Q	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]
Spin	B−[12]
The Village Voice	B−[13]

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Want Two is, according to Wainwright, the darker sibling of 2003's Want One – its subject matter concerned with "the world we live in" (RW Geffen Bio) after Want One's focus on the intensely personal. The artist's song selections here show his range to be broad, veering from romantic ballad ("Peach Trees") to tragic ballad ("This Love Affair"), sophisticated pop ("The One You Love") to third person/first person narrative lament ("The Art Teacher"), personal tongue in cheek manifesto ("Gay Messiah"), to a classical pop hybrid written about Jeff Buckley ("Memphis Skyline") and songs beyond category. "Agnus Dei" is used in the trailer for the 2007 film Trade.

Mother Kate McGarrigle and aunt Anna (McGarrigle) both perform and sing on "Hometown Waltz". Anohni of 2005 Mercury Prize winners Antony and the Johnsons sings lead vocal alongside Wainwright on "Old Whore's Diet". The initial UK version of the record contains bonus live tracks, "Coeur de Parisienne – Reprise d'Arletty" and "Quand vous mourrez de nos amours" (written by French Canadian songwriter Gilles Vigneault).