Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well 180g LP (Transparent Cream Vinyl)

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The music on Deeper Well, the seven-time Grammy winner's fifth album, is almost chimeric. Rolling acoustic guitars, puffy clouds of strings and synth, warm bass punctuations, layered harmonies, moments of Celtic melody and plenty of room on the tracks for Musgraves' silvery vocals.

On the bright, almost folky title track, the 30-something songstress surveys her life and priorities, recognizing what feeds her, drains her and even examines the childhood she's left behind on her way to now. Saturn returns, cardinals embody a dead friend, love is given and taken, streets rush by, belongings are packed and old chapters deserted, new love blooms, jade bracelets serve as talismans, deep lessons emerge, small details define everything, the woods are a refuge and New York City serves as the same gleaming beacon as Oz.

Pressed on 180-gram transparent cream vinyl. With KM + Boy Smells "Deeper Well" scented sleeves.

...Deeper Well examines Musgraves' continuing adventures in self-healing, offering a cycle of gratitude, contentment, and restrained wonder. Musgraves spends Deeper Well extolling the virtues of a simple kind of life, measuring happiness in terms of breakfasts at home, dinner with friends, and communing with nature in the heart of the woods....Deeper Well is filled with melodies that float and glide...the tunes all accentuate the record's general thrust of interior contentment. Musgraves, along with her regular collaborators Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, do manage to capture and sustain this delicate sensibility, creating a record that's every bit as pretty and memorable as gentle afternoon rain.