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Lucy Rose Parton seems to have been teleported from the 1960s, where her fragile songs and home-made jam (she sells it at gigs) would have made her a worthy supporting player in the pastoral-folk scene. "Supporting" being the operative word: the Warwickshire-bred vocalist and her acoustic guitar (plus unobtrusive band) create a hazy sound that leaves you feeling as if you've bathed in lavender oil – lovely, but lacking the acerbic touch that would elevate her to a leading role. In its unassertive way, though, her debut album is a trove of small pleasures. Lines is a sunny uplands of a song, startlingly intersected by a volley of cannon-fire bass; Night Bus is a deceptively sweet thing that sympathetically depicts a coven of depressed night people. The beautiful, blurred ballad Place takes Rose into Feist territory, before erupting into an Ed Sheeranish mid-tempo canter. Best known, until now, as a backing vocalist for Bombay Bicycle Club, Rose is worth hearing in her own right, as much for her emollient effect as anything else.



Verenigd Koninkrijk
Pop / Folk
Label: Columbia


1. Red Face
 2. Middle Of The Bed
 3. Lines
 4. Shiver
 5. Night Bus
 6. Watch Over
 7. Bikes
 8. Place
 9. Don’t You Worry
 10. First
 11. Be Alright