I want

Check out the cover of Rufus’ new album, Want, whose first installment will be released Sept. 23. Wow. All I can say right now is boy, he’s such a prince:

And there’s a lot of new info on the official website, finally. From the “Bio” section:

“Want One is a presentable, accessible entity,” Wainwright explains. “Want Two will have some of the more daunting tracks, the operatic, weird stuff, some heavy numbers that relate to my classical sensibilities.” Not that the initial volume eschews the daunting, the weird or the heavy, all of which have emerged as distinctive arrows in Wainwright’s ambitious, gloriously stylish musical quiver.

The singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist elaborates: “This album really made itself; it commanded its own parameters. My first record took three years to make; the second took a year and a half. This one took six months, and during that time we were able to cut 30 tracks. Want One has a good balance of the maze I tend to wind people around. And it was a fun record to make. A lot of it was made just jamming, so it’s sort of laid back as well.”

I’m so excited.