'Nobody Comes Round Here' and 'Solo(w)' are two more tracks that are similarly effecting. Is that what I'm good for? I'm afraid, and I'm scared, and I'm terrified that these things won't ever change." The backing vocals, sumptuous strings and intermittent percussive touches all add to the atmospherics of the piece. Rose's latest single 'Treat Me Like A Woman' is more direct and unflinching in its approach with Lucy questioning her own part in the dynamics of her teetering relationship: "And you treat me like a fool, or do you treat me like a woman? Make me feel so small. 2 are similarly evocative as Rose chooses to at first convey her mood through a layered and harmonious high vocal and then strips it all back for a piano-backed ballad where she focuses more positively on reframing her life so that she may "feel whole again". Here on this instrumental, there are no words, and no need for words the tune and the arrangement say it, and convey it, all brilliantly. On 'Just A Moment', there is a audible resignation in the slow melancholy that's imparted through the soft guitar. Whilst expressing herself candidly, Rose captures quite brilliantly the anguish and contradictory nature of working through strained relationships. There is a rawness and an edge here that's rarely manifested itself in this form on previous work and it's a very welcome departure. From the opening track of 'Confines Of This World' through to the close-out track 'What Does It Take', Rose lays herself bare. The title of Rose's latest eleven-track album is something of a paradox as Rose is at her most expressive and eloquent on 'No Words Left'. There is still an underlying tenderness to Rose's work but her newest songs are no longer tender and sweet, they're tenderness imparted through agonising loss, longing or crushing disappointment. Before you read that Rose is coming out of the back of a year she says was "one of the hardest times of life", you can actually hear it in the music. 'No Words Left' is no exception to that rule. the better the resultant material produced. It's something of a rock 'n' roll cliché that the more traumatic the experiences of the protagonist - the more uncomfortable, the harder the fall, the bigger the break-up etc. Her trademark characteristics are still littered throughout the album, and her vocal is as good as ever, but with 'No Words Left' she's mined a darker seam of thought to help shape her songs. Following up 2017's 'Something's Changing', Lucy Rose Parton has indeed altered tack with her latest release.
As Lucy Rose approaches her fourth decade she is releasing her fourth, and arguably best, full-length album: 'No Words Left'.
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