Admirable Art
This is a delicate and sweet collection of songs, the essence of pretty but with a clarity that defies affectation – what I mean is Rose has a voice that is effortlessly pure and is so across a range of the gentle to soaring, as in tracks Pt 1 and Pt 2 of the album’s title where the wordless expression across piano and then strings coalesce in a simple but powerful beauty.
Song after song after
song all about me and my misery Rose is honest and direct in her lyrical introspections, and the
harmonising choruses with occasional light orchestrations can be pop-perfect or
more jazz inflective, either quite distinctive. Opener Conversation is sublime in its fine melodic lines and lyrical
honesty - no one lets me down like you do - and the harmonising with again strings in comforting lament and some emotive
energy at times. The piano and vocal mapping on Solo(w) is plaintively gorgeous, this with its shadow of saxophone
setting the jazzier trajectory and an incantation of solo to intone deep personal feeling, this augmented by and I’m afraid and I’m scared and I’m
terrified how these things won’t ever change for all of my life in the following
track Treat Me Like a Woman.
I have enjoyed and continue to follow with admiration and
great liking this artist’s work: more reviews here.
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