After delivering the powerful, yet stripped down and subdued All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu in 2010, Wainwright returned to the studio with the intention of returning to the ornate pop of his early days. The resulting Out of the Game, which was produced by Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Duran Duran), arrives on May 8, 2012 and will feature 12 new songs that the artist describes as the most "danceable" material in his repertoire to date.