Golden Hour
| Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour
Golden Hour is the fourth major label album by American country music artist Kacey Musgraves, released on March 30, 2018, through MCA Nashville. Musgraves co-wrote all 13 tracks and co-produced the album with Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk. The album debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 and has since been widely acclaimed by music critics. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The mystical grandeur of Golden Hour creates a magnetic effect as Kacey Musgraves sings simply about the world as if she’s the first person to notice, and you’re the first one she’s telling.
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Thrillist Entertainment
Golden Hour" from Kacey Musgraves is what she calls "galactic country" music, and it might just be the best pop record of the year.
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The Guardian
Drugs, futurism, LGTBQ rights … Musgraves’ new album confirms she is not your average Nashville star.
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The Washington Post
“Golden Hour” is Kacey Musgraves’ finest album to date.
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Spin
Kacey Musgraves’s Pristine Golden Hour Might Be a Classic.
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Consequence of Sound
Kacey Musgraves Absolutely Shines on Golden Hour. An honest, cohesive musical experience that will linger in your mind and heart.
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Stereogum
Her music communicates a real empathy, something that’s always made her an enormously appealing figure. And on Golden Hour, we get to hear her fall in love.
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USA Today
There’s something supernatural about the country singer’s third release, Golden Hour, which finds the singer achieving the nirvana she’s sought over the course of her previous two albums.
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Vulture
Musgraves’s new album Golden Hour makes mincemeat of both the trepidation about the quality of country women’s art and the fuss about them crossing over. It’s her most accomplished and her least traditional body of work to date.
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Los Angeles Times
Kacey Musgraves is a radical optimist on the blissed-out 'Golden Hour'
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NPR Music
After Carving Out A Space, Kacey Musgraves Lets Her Guard Down On 'Golden Hour'
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All Music
Golden Hour shimmers with the vivid colors that arrive when the sun starts to set, when familiar scenes achieve a sense of hyperreality.
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Independent
At a time where mainstream artists seem forced to dwell on all the doom and gloom we hear on the news, Golden Hour is a reminder that sometimes – often, if you’re looking in the right places – life is beautiful.
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Refinery29
Kacey Musgraves Rebels Against Country Music With Her Romantic New Album
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Esquire
Golden Hour pushes the genre's boundaries while honoring it's greatest traditions.
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Taste of Country
Kacey Musgraves' 'Golden Hour' is a fun, reflective step forward.
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Chicago Tribune
Kacey Musgraves blows past country boundaries on 'Golden Hour'
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Pop Matters
Kacey Musgraves Creates a Radical Musical Landscape on 'Golden Hour'
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Under The Radar
Whilst tracks like "Butterflies" and "High Horse" offer the best of what Musgraves can do in terms of balancing her obvious charm against a certain steely underbelly that has served her so well so far in her career, all too often, Golden Hour delivers a lackluster vibe and a feeling that Musgraves has become too infatuated with the pop side of her artistry and is beginning to forget about the things that made her so interesting and worth investing in in the first place.
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Herald Standard
“Golden Hour” is Musgrave’s finest hour yet.
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Vinyl Me, Please.
...writing the best music of her career and making country music that refuses to be boxed in by what is expected.
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The Panther
‘Golden Hour’ illuminates new era for Kacey Musgraves
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The Observer
Kacey Musgraves shines on 'Golden Hour'
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Albumism
Kacey Musgraves’ Easy, Breezy ‘Golden Hour’ Is Time Well Spent
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The Young Folks
Golden Hour is a great musical step forward in several unexpected directions for Musgraves.
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Americana Music Show
It’s a very good album but neither Country nor towering.
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Sounds Like Nashville
Golden Hour isn’t just an album, it’s a force of nature that Musgraves curated observing the world around her and translating that insight into inspiring words, calling out to the listener’s soul as she pours out her own.
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Bearded Gentlemen Music
Golden Hour shows how strong Musgraves’ writing has become in the past few years.
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Sputnik Music
I'm gonna do it my way, it'll be alright; if we burn it down and it takes all night...
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edinboronow
Despite the pop overtones leading her out of the trailer park, instruments such as acoustic and slide guitar and Musgrave’s signature twang points her arrow into a brighter, lovelier world.
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University Observer
An effortlessly daring take for those who dislike traditional country.
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earbuddy
It is a very good album, but it’s perhaps not a classic.
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The Muse
Kacey Musgraves's Golden Hour Is Everything That's Good About Country Music
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Spectrum Culture
Golden Hour offers an expansive moment at redefinition.
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Nylon
Kacey Musgraves Is The Future Of Country Music
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Immortal Reviews
Kacey Musgraves learns to move on in Golden Hour, looking back and ahead to understand the person she is in the present. It's simple, but beautiful all the same, telling stories and admitting intimate thoughts while being relatable at once.
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GIGsoup
'Golden Hour' isn't bad, but it's certainly not great. Kacey Musgraves' latest effort would nicely suit a bleary-eyed road trip or rural high-school prom, but little else.
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The Herald
Golden Hour lands on the poppier side of country, so is a worth a listen to fans of pop, country and anyone who just likes a good record.
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Scene Point Blank
Golden Hour is Musgraves best and most fully realized record, one that transcends country, or any genre really, with the focus on crystalline songwriting, gorgeous arrangements and something entirely different with the startling disco bump of “High Horse”.
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Building Our Own Nashville
Golden Hour is an enchanting, magical, majestic masterpiece that reaches new heights for Kacey and flows across all genres making Musgraves an unstoppable force.
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The Rocky Mountain Collegian
Kacey Musgraves maintains her position in country music on ‘Golden Hour’
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Renowned for Sound
Golden Hour is such an outstanding album, which nicely mixes together what Kacey Musgraves does better, country, with few more styles, as electronic and disco.
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The Odyssey
Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour also happens to be her finest.
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The Sunflower
A New Golden Hour for Country
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Nashville Over Here
Golden Hour is an album that has pop crossover written all over it, and there’s no better pop star on the planet right now than Kacey Musgraves.
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the musical hype
Two-time Grammy-winning country artist Kacey Musgraves returns with a magnificent, third studio album, ‘Golden Hour’, which appeals beyond the country audience.
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ArtMagazine
In the largely conservative world of country music, Kacey Musgraves is brave enough to branch out into new spheres, while still honouring her roots. Golden Hour continues her run of impressive long players, cementing her reputation as one of Nashville’s brightest stars.
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RiFF magazine
Kacey Musgraves adds dance pop to repertoire on Golden Hour
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The Tufts Daily
Musgraves' 4th studio album is a masterpiece from start to finish, marking a milestone in the singer-songwriter's career.
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Country Exclusive
Kacey Musgraves the vocalist has been highly underestimated, and in that sense, this is her best album without question.
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POPFECTION
‘Golden Hour’ is one of the first albums this year that really dazzled me, with its beautiful songwriting and taking the traditional country album a few steps forward.
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the paper
Although little on Golden Hour is really a surprise, in short, Musgraves has proven herself to be much more than a one hit wonder.
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The Southern Sounding
"Golden Hour" is a wonder of musical transformation and a tribute to the boundless possibilities of sound, regardless of aesthetic.
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The Hudsucker
Kasey Musgraves glows on 'Golden Hour'
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Glide Magazine
Kacey Musgraves blossoms on 'Golden Hour'
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chorus.fm
Golden Hour feels like a new high water mark for Musgraves.
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Critically Country
A change in sound, away from traditional leaning material and a change in the substance of her music…
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Bernard Zuel
Golden Hour leaves me warm but not gripped, admiring but not moved.
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No Depression
Kacey Musgraves' Golden Light
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All Campus Radio Network
Golden Hour isn’t just the album that country music needed , it’s also an album that girls everywhere needed. Musgraves’ latest is healing, self-aware, inspiring and simply beautiful.
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Highway Queens
Overall for me Kacey’s voice is still undeniably perfect on every track and I think there is enough quality here to elevate Golden Hour above many other releases this year.
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The Austin Chronicle
Golden Hour is a crossover done right.
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Your Life In A Song
In today’s world of country music where we hear so many run-of-the-mill, obvious attempts at radio success, artists like Kacey Musgraves are so important for the credibility of the genre.
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pressplayok
Can the world finally wake up the genius of Kacey Musgraves?
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Roughstock
Musgraves worked with a new production team on her third LP and that work has spawned a strong song-cycle, a cycle that’ll have longtime fans in for a shock, at least at first.
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Hot Press
Excellent stuff from the new queen of Nashville. With one foot set firmly in traditional Nashville...
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The Huntingtonian
Overall, the relaxed ambiance that occurs in “Golden Hour” is very refreshing and shows that Musgraves is going in a different and refreshing direction with her music.
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Pop Magazine
The gamble that Kacey Musgraves took in creating “Golden Hour” will certainly pay off as this is a great collection of songs with crossover appeal.
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The DM Online
‘Golden Hour’ reflects on loneliness, losses, mistakes bound to happen in love
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Fusion Country
Golden Hour is an excellent journey through the ups and downs of the spectrum of human emotions.
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Chicago Reader
On Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves complements her inner happiness with a fizzy pop aesthetic that tones down her country foundation
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Spectrum Pulse
Golden Hour - with this record, she made it clear she's not going anywhere.
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Under the Influence of Music
‘Golden Hour’ Is A Look Into Kacey Musgraves’ Daydreams
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EveningTimes
The fourth album from Texan country singer Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour, is a collection of dreamy, sometimes ethereal, songs that blend together in a way that many albums never attain.
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Lexgo
For Musgraves, the primary color is now gold. On “Golden Hour,” it shines with a sense of grace and groove today’s country music can’t begin to contain.
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earthings!
There’s this epic, sweeping feel to the songs, and a subtlety to the lyrics, seeing her turn inwards with class and confidence.
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West Texas Sweetheart
Overall I love this album and I am going to hold on to this record for awhile. It seems like every time Kacey puts out an album it has been a big part of my life and I can’t wait to experience it in this album.
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Brooklyn Vegan
Golden Hour isn’t a wild departure from the addictive, deceptively simple sound Kacey has had since Same Trailer Different Park. It feels like a natural progression, and it shouldn’t turn any old fans off; hopefully it’ll just pull in new ones.
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Kevin's Album Reviews
Overall I enjoyed this album. I loved it, It's a great album. I would definitely listen to it again.
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Record Collector
For now, we can just enjoy this, Golden Hour is a bedazzled, wide-eyed rush.
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Entertainment Focus
Musgraves has upped her game with Golden Hour and this is the album that could well become her signature body of work.
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Roots Magazine
This is Musgraves’ fourth album (one including a Christmas album) and proves to have a different vibe than the others, but in a great way.
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The Straits Times
Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour is dreamy country with a bit of disco
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The Perfect Tempo
Golden Hour is a beautiful, bold and experimental record that goes exciting new places without losing that trademark Kacey Musgraves sound that warms your soul.
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Six Shooter Country
The Texan soars with this trippy and insightful record.
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Recommended Listen
The album amounts to something akin to an actual rainbow for that matter – All colors vivid and unique in their own way, but when they collect together, they suggest something much more, be it in its wonders of life, love, and enjoying every second of it in the present with your senses filled with them.
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Riffs and Rhymes
The little charm this record has can be boiled down to two things: Kacey’s angelic voice and occasionally well-calculated songwriting.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Musgraves delivers some terrific songs on Golden Hour, and it feels so artless that it’s thoroughly believable and relatable.
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The Royal News
Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour is Truly Golden
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Beltway Boots
Oh, What An Album!
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Thomas Bleach
The whole record is an impressive collection of raw emotion and polished production where she doesn’t sacrifice the country sound she’s established but instead hears her growing and evolving as an artist.
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Quill & Slate
Golden Hour is perhaps Musgraves' strongest album so far, and an excellent country pop album that takes you on the full emotional gamut, and, like her other albums, makes for excellent driving music.
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The Ringer
Golden Hour is soft-focus but not unfocused, grounded in classic-country verve but wildly exploratory, awestruck but far from naive.
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The Voyager
This album is beautiful and feels like summer.
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Boheme and Bourbon
This album is a bit more serious than her previous albums and features more love songs than witty narratives. It is a significant shift from her previous albums in terms of sound as well – blending country-pop with disco and electronic influences.
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stereoboard.com
There’s a ripple effect that comes from bathing in Musgraves’ Technicolor outlook. Your perspectives will shift. You’ll become more aware of everything that’s good about this world.
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Nashville Scene
Kacey Musgraves Trades Outspokenness for Self-Reflection on Golden Hour
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Low Upside
Kacey Musgraves manages to wrap all 13 of these tracks into a blissful record that serves a snapshot into this moment of her life. Settle in, watch the sunset, and feel the high fade away.
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Old Rookie
Kacey Musgraves finds the perfect light in the "Golden Hour."
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