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Irish Goodbye is glorious.
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper into the Well
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Irish Goodbye is exactly what I was missing from this album and needed from the start. It perfectly encapsulates the records overall sound but also harkens back to her older material songwriting wise. She’s grown so much in that avenue but she still has that STDF girl in her.
Irish Goodbye is even more boring than the album. She's just lost her spark.
I think this post highlights the dissonance between Kacey’s current artistic endeavors and some fan expectations.
I’m sure so many of us expected another inch closer to some sort of pop/“World Music” record. Instead of that, she’s stepped into an ethereal wood nymph forest where she can play some tiny instruments and cry and laugh. Not literally, of course. But it’s an exciting route for her to be exploring at this time.
This song is quite sad and pokes at some specific type of heartbreak. Something so emotional cannot be boring in my eyes. This is a standout on the record, for sure.
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Deeper Well could end up being my album of the year, depending on how it hits this fall + the deluxe tracks. Irish Goodbye adds to an already flawless collection. I can't fathom not enjoying this album if you like the rest of her catalogue. It's Golden Hour's stoned single sister.
I like Irish Goodbye, but agree that it's a bit short.
Half of the melodies on the album can be found in hundreds of other folks songs and the hooks aren't there. The lyrics are especially literal and Irish Goodbye sounds like she's trying to teach everyone a new concept, though it just comes off as trite. Even Starcrossed wasn't a great album but had 4 of her best ever tunes. This has zero.
Anyway...
We're getting way more new songs than I expected we would from a deluxe, so I'm very excited to get sucked back into this album. This year has been so crowded with great new releases, but I think this stands as one of the best of the year. Her songwriting voice is strong enough to keep something this delicate and soft from getting lost in the shuffle of all these other big albums.
We're getting way more new songs than I expected we would from a deluxe, so I'm very excited to get sucked back into this album. This year has been so crowded with great new releases, but I think this stands as one of the best of the year. Her songwriting voice is strong enough to keep something this delicate and soft from getting lost in the shuffle of all these other big albums.
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Bizarre.
Shrug. It's nice enough background music but very one note.
To say the hooks aren't there, it's just not truth.
But like, almost every track on Deeper Well is laced with interesting little hooks or vocal melodies at every turn?
When I get paid, I wanna spend it all on you
cos baby, that's what it's for...
I don't even know if it's safe. She adjusts her sound and her voice in a specific way from song to song, I think not enough has actually been said critically about how good this album is. I played it this morning and it still just hits in all the right ways. Maybe it's a long shot but I hope this deluxe somehow reignites the campaign, because it went quiet way too soon (Dua teas), or gets her a mini streaming hit.
When I get paid, I wanna spend it all on you
cos baby, that's what it's for...
I don't even know if it's safe. She adjusts her sound and her voice in a specific way from song to song, I think not enough has actually been said critically about how good this album is. I played it this morning and it still just hits in all the right ways. Maybe it's a long shot but I hope this deluxe somehow reignites the campaign, because it went quiet way too soon (Dua teas), or gets her a mini streaming hit.
I'm really glad you guys all love it, but for me it's a dud. Hooks are subjective and for me, it's nothing like her other work.
I've been returning to this the most this year. In a year of releases marked mostly by excess, to various degrees of success, this feels really simple and comforting. It might not be daringly ambitious, but it's nonetheless an exercise in very good faith, of distilling her whole craft down to its essence to a frightening degree. All anchored in her worldview of this quiet, curious sense of wonder about love and all the gorgeous, unexpected and unexplained things about the universe. I get that the songs might seem slight, but they really work as a series of quick, meditative sketches, with acoustic rhythms that have such lovely momentum. When you add her crystalline, eardrum-close voice, whoo!
And of everything, "Jade Green" is the sine qua non. The way it's so tightly and perfectly fine-tuned, while also keeping her weeaboo impulses at their most tolerable and charming. This jewel-like object you can only look at from every angle and wonder at. How And I'm with you and you're with me is so meltingly, dissolvingly gorgeous. How you could live within the moment of a song. What a gift!
And of everything, "Jade Green" is the sine qua non. The way it's so tightly and perfectly fine-tuned, while also keeping her weeaboo impulses at their most tolerable and charming. This jewel-like object you can only look at from every angle and wonder at. How And I'm with you and you're with me is so meltingly, dissolvingly gorgeous. How you could live within the moment of a song. What a gift!
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Heart of the Woods for me.
I actually don't think this is without merit, but I still like the album nn.