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Lucy Rose
- Record Label: Communion Records
- Release Date: Apr 19, 2024
- Summary: The latest full-length release from British singer-songwriter Lucy Rose was produced by Kwes.
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- Record Label: Communion Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Apr 18, 2024We’re left reveling in an album that is grand in ambition and execution – a sweeping journey of highs and lows worth celebrating.
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Apr 18, 2024The jazz-imbued one-two of ‘Light As Grass’ and ‘Could You Help Me’ gives the record a rich introduction, while ‘Sail Away’ descends into a heady, dance-tinged mist; by the time the funky gratitude of ‘The Racket’ closes proceedings (“I won’t let you bring me down”), it’s hard not to be in awe of the scale of her growth and transformation in every sense of the word.
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Apr 18, 2024These are some of the most interesting and sonically varied songs of her entire career.
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Apr 18, 2024Rose is arguably still at her best on the more intimate balladry, such as on album highlights "Dusty Frames," with its rippled, watery effects, and the brittlely resilient title track. Nothing here, though, is a misfire, as Rose deftly navigates these new approaches.
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MojoApr 18, 2024A suite of songs that are more reflective than self-pitying, and unlike her last, beats-free album, often grounded by solid grooves that allow her bewitching melodies to soar. [May 2024, p.85]
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Apr 29, 2024Ambitious, emotive, and completely open, it’s a gorgeous song cycle, drenched in jazz-leaning arrangements.
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Apr 18, 2024Rose’s voice is as pure and light as ever, but the most inspired part of This Ain’t the Way is how the album repositions that quiet register as silent rage.