Her fourth album, No Words Left, is her starkest, filled with lyrics about uncertainty and isolation, and yet her most striking, conveying the strongest sense of her artistic identity yet.
When the album closes with the lucid "Song After Song", it's a touching, unexpectedly hummable end to a set that's intricate yet understated, and sad yet comforting.
With plenty of sweet to balance the sour, this is a record that will resonate with anybody rebuilding themselves in the aftermath of self-doubt, and easily confirms itself as her most honest work yet.
Rose has stuck firmly to her strengths – crafting heartbreaking, gentle melodies that hurt as much as they heal.
It’s raw but not simplistic, with musical surprises in the corners.
In No Words Left Lucy Rose is tearing open the walls of her emotions, using the process of creating music as a form of therapy.
Lucy Rose has made the atypical trek of debuting on a major label and finally ending up on an indie, where she should have been from the start. finally gone are the awkward pretensions of earlier efforts to inject steroids into basic folk songs , a pattern she was able to break with the brilliant "Floral Dresses" recorded with The Staves in 2017 on the turning point album Something's Changing. that process of change has now reached fruition in No Words Left, a deeply sincere and ... read more
Despite being typified as a helpless wallflower, Lucy Rose is always proactive in her lyrics: her characters are determined, always eager to take the wheel and mend strained relationships, to let go of hurtful things, to really work it out. Her work is forgiveness through song, a call for mutual understanding. But in ‘No Words Left’, Rose needs to forgive herself, and we learn that she’s much less tolerant of her own misdoings.
The differences immediately startle; ... read more
Nice indie(?) folk album with a very soothing overall atmosphere to it. Heard this last night in a listening party and it was pretty nice, especially as it was already a bit late and i could really feel all of it setting in. Thing is though, it's very enjoyable and i'm sure i enjoyed it, but if you asked me to even as much as hum a slight bit of it now for you, i'd be standing there without much to make you hear i'm afraid.
That's not bad obviously, more albums managed to do the same for me ... read more
1 | Conversation 3:49 | 95 |
2 | No Words Left Pt. 1 1:27 | 90 |
3 | Solo(w) 4:07 | 95 |
4 | Treat Me Like A Woman 3:47 | 89 |
5 | The Confines Of This World 3:39 | 91 |
6 | Just A Moment 1:43 | 80 |
7 | Nobody Comes Round Here 3:46 | 90 |
8 | What Does It Take 2:33 | 85 |
9 | Save Me From Your Kindness 3:47 | 94 |
10 | Pt. 2 3:07 | 97 |
11 | Song After Song 3:07 | 93 |
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