This is kind of what I'm hoping Kylie's Golden will sound like?
― Tim F, Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/26/595765776/first-listen-kacey-musgraves-golden-hour
― Simon H., Monday, 26 March 2018 11:25 (six years ago) link
this is so good
― niels, Monday, 26 March 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
there's an occasional clunky line but man this just sounds so good
― Simon H., Monday, 26 March 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
otm
― niels, Monday, 26 March 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
definitely get J0rdan's comment re. "high horse" after my first listen. phenomenal album still though.
― ripersnifle, Monday, 26 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
album is good but jesus if i have to see one more comment about "transcending country"
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 26 March 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
oh good i'm glad i don't read the internet
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 26 March 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen much of that crap yet, to be honest, and NPR got Jewly Hight, one of our best writers about country.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 March 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
or should I say "best writers" because she transcends country
her writing on this album definitely made me check her other articles
― niels, Monday, 26 March 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
yeah, she's great!
― ripersnifle, Monday, 26 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
the sound of this record is so rich
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 26 March 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
love the fleetwood mac groove and gleam on "lonely weekend"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 26 March 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 March 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
i knew this album was gonna fuck my shit up when i heard the drum fill on “lonely weekend” for the first time
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 March 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
there's an occasional clunky line but man this just /sounds/ so good
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 March 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
I know I'll warm up to it sometime this week.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 March 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
kinda interesting to imagine how thos would've been received if this was the follow up to "STDP" instead of "PM"
― ripersnifle, Monday, 26 March 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― ripersnifle, Monday, 26 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
i always felt the 'PM' was way underappreciated. it's almost as good as 'STDP'.
― Nourry, Monday, 26 March 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
maybe i am just excited but i feel like this sounds pretty much perfect
― alpine static, Monday, 26 March 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
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/
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 March 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
lots of good stuff, thanks!
― niels, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
can't wait to read that piece today, thanks j0rd
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
it's excellent!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
it nails the oddness of shopping at any Walgreens that isn't your own.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed that article also, thanks J0rd. Was "Grand Folks" a typo? A good one if so.
― Tim, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
hahaha. yes... i'm gonna fix that, thanks
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
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
― dyl, Friday, 30 March 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
Yeah, just saw her play that on Colbert and wow
― albvivertine, Friday, 30 March 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
oh this record is so painfully sweetly good, i don't know if i can stand to listen to it all year
― j., Friday, 30 March 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
has anyone written a piece comparing this to the new frankie cosmos
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 30 March 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
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
― ufo, Saturday, 31 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
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
― albvivertine, Saturday, 31 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
this is a silly comparison but Slow Burn makes me think of Sufjan covering Bittersweet Symphony
― ufo, Saturday, 31 March 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
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
― j., Saturday, 31 March 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
heh, I guess she does her own twitter
― niels, Sunday, 1 April 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 2 April 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
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.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 April 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 2 April 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
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."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 April 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
what was the deleted tweet?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
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
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
i love those two tracks though
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
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
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
the dude being "gays"
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
― lowercase (eric),
same
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 April 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
glad the backlash has finally arrived (not here per se, in general) for this good album
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 2 April 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link