Friday, April 06, 2018

Kacey Musgraves - "Slow Burn"

Golden Hour is one of the best-reviewed albums of this new year, and it's easy to see why: Just about every track on the Kacey Musgraves record comes bearing an identifiable hook, indelible and undeniable.

Here's the opening cut, which is a nice little thesis statement for the whole album. Took me a second to realize "Born in a hurry, always late / Haven't been early since '88" was a pretty dynamite way of telling the world you're about to turn 30.