Wainwright teams with Mark Ronson for new album

Rufus Wainwright is working on a new album with Mark Ronson which is said to be more pop-geared than many of his more recent releases.

“We’ve been in for three days, and I already look 20 years younger,” Wainwright told Rolling Stone magazine.

“I have to start looking around for motorcycle outfits or something, I feel so damn cool!”

Wainwright took a few years off to work on his opera, Prima Donna, and last year’s dark piano cycle All Days Are Nights.

“The main objective – not for the entire [album], necessarily, but for portions of it – is to be danceable,” he said.

“I just want to make something that you love, driving around in your car listening or losing your mind to on a dance floor. Something to serenade us through these very, very troubling times.”

Ronson, who has worked with pop acts including Amy Winehouse, Adele and Lily Allen, was an obvious choice Wainwright said.

“One is that he’s made a lot of hit records, two, the records sound amazing and three is that he’s really good-looking,” he said.

Read more about the new album over at Rolling Stone.