Kacey Musgraves Finds an Alluring Wellspring of Finger-Picking and Hard-Fought Bliss in ‘Deeper Well’: Album Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The Grammy-winning “Golden Hour” was Kacey Musgraves’ honeymoon album, flush with love and promise in 2018.
Its more dramatic followup, 2021’s “Star-Crossed,” turned out to be her divorce album, for most intents and purposes. So what’s a singer-songwriter do for an encore, after having pretty effectively covered the twin poles of serenity and severance?
The answer, as heard on “Deeper Well,” maybe not altogether surprisingly, is to learn to love again (moderately gunshy version).
It’s telling that she ends the record with a song titled “Nothing to Be Scared Of,” and sweetly sings it like she really believes it, even though she’s the one who’s been introducing more than trace amounts of anxiety into the preceding 12 tracks.
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