Lucy Rose returns with her new record ‘No Words Left’, and she's feeling liberated: "I gave up worrying a long time ago"

“Read me wrong; you won’t be the first.” As a jarring string section emerges towards the end of new album opener ‘Conversation’, that lyric feels like a sentiment to sum up the whole of Lucy Rose’s fourth record. Immediately followed by a brief interlude of wordless vocals, classical guitar and fretless bass, Rose has once again reinvented how she presents her heartfelt, honest songs. After the indie riffs of second album ‘Work It Out’, Lucy spent time travelling South America with just her guitar and returned with a brilliant collection of classic songwriting, her third album ‘Something’s Changing’.

Two years later on ‘No Words Left’, Rose continues to ensure that nothing stays quite the same. ‘Solo(w)’’ builds from lone piano to a crooning sax solo, as the Warwick born singer tests her limits over eleven tracks. An album born out of hardship and tension, it’s a stark and at times brutal record.

But then the songs came, and Rose headed into the studio with the intention to capture them as they existed in that moment. After touring abroad as a three-piece, Lucy realised she wanted to make a record without any drums.

“Sometimes feels like when it’s more intimate it’s more intense than when there are lots of things going on onstage. When there’s like drums and everything, you can be distracted and enjoy all the different elements of it, but it's not as intense as a more stripped back thing. And I was just enjoying that intensity and silence and being my own head of rhythm.