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But for this album you should know what Lucy went through in the process of making it.įor me to claim to be able to label her experience or claim that it speaks for everyone with a mental health condition would also be conceited, but No Words Left seems a pretty much bang-on, and accessible account of what she was going through.Īnd she manages to do it without self-pity there’s misery but it’s not miserable.įear and loneliness are No Words Left’s leitmotifs. I’m not a fan of music reviewers who try and squeeze every fact about the artist they’ve just researched five minutes ago into a few hundred words. “Maybe I’m not as good as the girl I hear next door…song after song, all about me, my misery”. This is most evident on final track ‘Song After Song’ where, filled with anxiety and paranoia, Lucy sings about hearing the girl next door playing songs she believes to be about her. In the same way as Dylan Thomas, the simplification of her music, the instrumentation, the sound is an effort to gain control of difficult feelings.

The lack of drums is striking (no pun intended) and adds an extra starkness to the already bare nerves of the album. There’s the sense that you are trapped in Lucy’s mind, in her room, possibly in the dark, alone. The casual quality of the music is at odds with the lyrical content. Lucy Rose is doing something similar on this album. Our teacher told us about the terse villanelle form of the poem and the interpretation that he used this strict arrangement in order to wrestle his grief under control. Whereas with Laura there’s a subtly menacing sexuality, with Lucy it’s harder to pin down.Īt school I remember studying ‘Do not go gentle in to that good night’ by Dylan Thomas. While the music, at a cursory listen, seems simple – even just nice, the worst adjective – the lyrical content is not. Small, blonde, fringe, acoustic guitar, folksy, happy – almost naïve – sounding songs that hide something else beneath. Album Description“If you like Laura Marling you should listen to Lucy Rose, mate”. See More Your browser does not support the audio element.

In addition to its tone and palette, unifying No Words Left is an overarching loneliness expressed in titles like 'Solo(w)' and 'Nobody Comes Round Here.' When the album closes with the lucid 'Song After Song' ('Song after song after song all about me and my misery…'), it's a touching, unexpectedly hummable end to a set that's intricate yet understated, and sad yet comforting. The instrumental 'Just a Moment' is the album's lone solo acoustic guitar track. 1' has vocals but no words, adding Rose's tuneful wail to a psychedelic swirl of strummed acoustic guitar and improvisational double bass, piano, congas, and other, harder-to-identify timbres. In fact, there's a deceptively large list of instruments represented here, ranging from strings, woodwinds, and percussion to electric guitar, organ and synths. That's despite the fact that the latter song is built upon electric guitar. Elsewhere, songs like 'Treat Me Like a Woman' and 'Save Me from Your Kindness' build likewise elegantly textured arrangements that still seem as quiet as rain or that would notice the subtle scrape of a stool against the kitchen floor. Meanwhile, Rose's resigned vocals seem to come from the adjoining sofa cushion rather than any kind of performance when she confesses 'No one loves me quite like you do/But no one lets me down like you do.' The song eventually adds instruments like piano and vintage electric piano to its eerie soundscape. First track 'Conversation' establishes minor intervals and a gentle, woebegone tone from its opening picked-acoustic guitar and partly dissonant, spare strings. It soon becomes evident, however, that, while stylistically similar, No Words Left is a more somber, heartbroken outing. Lucy Rose has always been that cute little indie folk songstress that made sweet songs but never achieved a bigger depth beyond pleasurable - this changes with 'No Words Left', stripping her music to more bare-bones folk music and amplifying its atmosphere through a dreamier production, she made her most melancholic and emotionally assaulting record so far. Buy the album Starting at £7.69īringing back Something's Changing (2017) producer Tim Bidwell for her fourth album, No Words Left, singer/songwriter Lucy Rose remains in the intimate, hushed acoustic sphere of her third release.

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