Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

its odd how certain retro signifiers convey 'futurism' in a country space, what i mean

This is kind of what I'm hoping Kylie's Golden will sound like?

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/26/595765776/first-listen-kacey-musgraves-golden-hour

this is so good

there's an occasional clunky line but man this just sounds so good

otm

definitely get J0rdan's comment re. "high horse" after my first listen. phenomenal album still though.

album is good but jesus if i have to see one more comment about "transcending country"

oh good i'm glad i don't read the internet

I haven't seen much of that crap yet, to be honest, and NPR got Jewly Hight, one of our best writers about country.

or should I say "best writers" because she transcends country

her writing on this album definitely made me check her other articles

yeah, she's great!

the sound of this record is so rich

love the fleetwood mac groove and gleam on "lonely weekend"

taking the moment to give Pageant Material another chance & it's much stronger than I remember. I get annoyed by the attempts to redo "Follow Your Arrow" ("Biscuits", "Family Is Family", to a less extent "Good Ol' Boys Club") but the rest of the album is outstanding.

i knew this album was gonna fuck my shit up when i heard the drum fill on “lonely weekend” for the first time

there's an occasional clunky line but man this just /sounds/ so good

I know I'll warm up to it sometime this week.

kinda interesting to imagine how thos would've been received if this was the follow up to "STDP" instead of "PM"

also been noticing a general trend of people having kinda "slept on" or overlooked "PM" upon release and only giving it a fair listen now, interestingly.

feel like - from a Building a Career Arc Narrative pov - it was a bit of a wrong move to follow up "STDP" with it. that said, i am one of the late comers to appreciating it, so i am clearly biased.

i always felt the 'PM' was way underappreciated. it's almost as good as 'STDP'.

maybe i am just excited but i feel like this sounds pretty much perfect

i don't normally post my writing on ilx but for fans of this record i think there's some good stuff in here about how it came together https://www.spin.com/featured/kacey-musgraves-golden-hour-march-2018-cover-story/

lots of good stuff, thanks!

can't wait to read that piece today, thanks j0rd

it's excellent!

it nails the oddness of shopping at any Walgreens that isn't your own.

I enjoyed that article also, thanks J0rd. Was "Grand Folks" a typo? A good one if so.

hahaha. yes... i'm gonna fix that, thanks

i need to spend more time with this to fully process it but for now it's safe to say "slow burn" is one of the most hauntingly gorgeous songs i've heard in ages

Yeah, just saw her play that on Colbert and wow

oh this record is so painfully sweetly good, i don't know if i can stand to listen to it all year

has anyone written a piece comparing this to the new frankie cosmos

I gave this a once-through today and it was nice. Nicer than I remember her other records being, anyway. And then I got stuck on "Rainbow" at the end of the album because there's part of the chorus melody that's a direct rip from Survivor's "The Search Is Over" and that made me ridiculously happy.

I'm really blown away by this album, the songs are great and the production is truly perfect, so rich and gorgeous and airy. one of the best sounding albums I've ever heard

Her performance on Colbert made me an instant fan so I'll probably just buy this as soon as I see it, hope I'm not disappointed

this is a silly comparison but Slow Burn makes me think of Sufjan covering Bittersweet Symphony

NO SHADE TO HER BUT LOL 🤣 pic.twitter.com/N5TpJdQhUF

— K A C E Y M U S G R A V E S (@KaceyMusgraves) March 31, 2018

heh, I guess she does her own twitter

the tempos alongside the beats connect this album to pop r&b to me: like, you could go from "I Feel It Coming" to "Oh, What A World" on the radio & it would sound natural. It's a different way to link to pop than like Luke Bryan where it's his singing that has rap cadences. Here Musgraves sings like she's always done but the beats make it sound like Miguel. I'd love to see those two tour together.

I'm not feeling this album much at all. It sounds canned, a buncha expensive demos with little evidence of a band approach (I couldn't figure out until I got to the guitar solo in "Velvet Elvis" – I was relieved!). Musgraves' vocals get monotonous after a while – not much variety.

oh well. on first listen I think it's delightful.

I like hearing how country artists going pop these days keep the banjos as a mark that this is country. Swift did this until 1989. This album is more like Fearless than Speak Now in terms of its progression outside of country. I'd like this to be a pop hit but being a country hit seems likely to me.

Swift did this until 1989.

This has been pretty par for the course since peak country pop c. Garth Brooks and Shania Twain, who lest one forget released three different versions of "Up!' in 2002, one "country," one "pop" and one "international."

what was the deleted tweet?

i think i agree w alfred to an extent -- besides "lonely weekend" and "high horse" there's not enough done w/in the rigidity of most the songs. i can hear the sade influence; it sounds like she was listening a lot to lovers rock, which funnily enough is my favorite sade album

i love those two tracks though

xp to katherine, it was the dude looking away from girl 1 to girl 2 meme, with emotion as the first and the musgraves album as the second

the dude being "gays"

i love those two tracks though

― lowercase (eric),

same