No Words Left

Lucy Rose - No Words Left
Critic Score
Based on 14 reviews
2019 Ratings: #243 / 805
User Score
Based on 150 ratings
2019 Rank: #231
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Guardian

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.

90
Albumism
Contrary to the album’s title, and as if her growing legion of devotees ever doubted it for a second, it’s more evident than ever before that Ms. Rose has plenty of words left to share with the world and a whole lifetime of songs to sing ahead of her.
85
Northern Transmissions
Though the album is defined by slow-burning magic, it can take time to truly feel like it grabs you.
80
AllMusic

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.

80
DIY

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.

80
The Independent
For someone who claims she has no words left, she manages to say rather a lot.
80
Dork

Rose has stuck firmly to her strengths – crafting heartbreaking, gentle melodies that hurt as much as they heal.

80
The Arts Desk
Rarely has a dark night of the soul ultimately sounded so uplifting.
80
Evening Standard

It’s raw but not simplistic, with musical surprises in the corners.

70
The 405

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.

60
NME
Sometimes excellent, sometimes uninvitingly dreary, ‘No Words Left’ is an ordinary album from a musician who could be truly extraordinary.
JohnLouisHoward
91

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

usedtobe
87

Piano songs for the heartbroken and hopeful. Grabs you and never lets go.

Raincoat
93

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

netonon8
83

:') ♡

MFC4AFoS
70

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

lukassantiago3
65

Beautiful melodies, great lyrics but the record doesn't go much further.

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Added on: January 11, 2019