LUCY ROSE. The name alone suggests to you that she’s something of a quintessential English rose, but you most likely know her as a constant collaborator of Bombay Bicycle Club. She’s got a lighter-than-air quality that comes through on her frightfully pleasant latest single, ‘Our Eyes’.
Softly spoken, she draws you in with a whisper but the jabby drums and punchy bass guitar indicate the move away from her folky beginnings – this is a pop track.
You might place Lucy Rose’s video and its aesthetics alongside the likes of Metronomy and their gloriously indulgent celebration of England’s green and pleasant lands on tracks like ‘The Bay’.
Rose’s video is a little more tongue in cheek, as it opens with her standing in a sausage suit under a murky urban flyover whilst a pair of Alsatians ogle her greedily. Next she’s dressed from the shoulders down as shrubbery, leading a couple of Shetland ponies around a farmer’s field. Then she’s at the seaside, looking ridiculous in a dreary chip suit being circled by pesky seagulls, a visual that is perhaps meant to reflect the faded glory of this nondescript but distinctly English beach town.
Throughout the video, the focus is on animal eyes. Lyrically, the song is about a potential love that will never come to fruition and the chorus repeats melancholically that ‘our eyes are stuck looking at’ – she’s stuck in stasis and stuck in a sausage costume.
Lucy Rose is a ruddy English country girl who's quietly doing her thing and making lovely quaint music. ‘Our Eyes’ is out now via Columbia Records.
Words by Katie Rowley
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