Golden Hour

nice blend of pop and country, one of the few modern country albums/artists i enjoy listening to

Pretty enjoyable country pop record. Loved the first half. Not so much the second one

Many many years ago I tried some country albums to try to be open-minded since a bunch of my friends loved country, but it just isn't for me 99% of the time. Spotify still thinks I want country in my daily/weekly rollups.
Anyway, Kacey Musgraves vocals kind of remind of Dolly, but the music itself feels more folksy/indie (like early 2000s female vocalists). She's a good vocalist, but I'm not sure this album belongs on this list. Dentist office music.

There’s a sheen to it that I struggle with, but some damn good songs. “Slow Burn” is tremendous. This could potentially grow one day.

3/5

My one abiding memory of Kasey Musgraves was her killer Coachella 2019 performance that included this great bit of banter during the live rendition of "Velvet Elvis"

"When I say 'yee,' you say 'haw.' Yee! (Haw!) Yee! (Haw!)"
"When I say 'yee,' you say 'haw.' Yee! (Haw!) Yee! (Haw!)"
"When I say 'yee,' you say 'haw.' .....! (Haw!) ... I didn't say fuckin' Yee!"

Played them like a fiddle...

Started real, ended weird, par for the course when you used to do shrooms at Bonnaroo I guess.

Fuck it 5 stars

This is an enjoyable listen. I really like the final three songs. Not entirely sure this is a must listen album.

Ihan hyvät sanat ja hyvä laulaja, mut ei musiikin puolella kovinkaan kiinnostava levy, vähän varman päälle pelaa. 3/5.

You know, I don’t generally expect myself to enjoy country music, especially modern country. But I really liked this. It felt more like pop with a country twang. Lots of solid songwriting and interesting musical ideas.

I imagine a lot of people will give this a low rating simply because they’ve decided that they hate country. I’ll say, I would consider country to be one of my least favorite genres, but my summary on this site does not reflect that. I think this list probably has higher quality country selections than some other genres (for example, I love punk music, but there’s a lot of punk on here that I don’t particularly like, so my rating for it is relatively low). In any case, I think it’s a shame if people don’t give this album the time of day simply due to its genre.

Sorry, but it’s sooooo boring.

Taylor Swift has a lot to answer for and none of it is good.

i thought a 2018 album worthy of being on the list would be quite something, its just fine though...
felt like giving it a 2 out of spite but nah its not bad, just whatever

Is this what's become of country music?

I don't like country, but she enchanted me on Live from Here. I am prepared to love this. It was enchanting. Kacey tells really poignant stories. If I liked country this would be a five star album.

Pop country is one of the things I hate most in the world. This album at least incorporates some interesting other elements like synths and vocoders but it's not enough to make it palatable to me.

Oh, awesome, modern pop country, my ffffaaaavvoooorrriiittteee.

I'd first like to say I'm under the belief lyrics, while important to a song, are usually a backseat compared to the instrumentation, otherwise it would just be poetry. That being said, the lyrics in this are awful. When they're not cheesy they're just bad.

"In Tennessee, the sun's goin' down, but in Bejing, they're headin' out to work", what the fuck does that mean? What does that have to do with this love song? Yeah, timezones exist, good job Kacey. It doesn't even rhyme within the song, which I would excuse as an artistic choice, except the very next two lines rhyme with each other, so obviously it wasn't that. There's other examples all throughout the album, but when your first song has a lyric that makes me burst out laughing, you probably don't have the keen-est sense of writing, and there's probably a reason most pop singers don't write their own music anymore.

Another thing is the actual choice of genre itself. It's pop country with light sprinklings of more electronic-esque genres, but that isn't used in any interesting capacity, they just usually are either a light backing track that aren't notable enough to talk about, or start the song, hoping one of these songs will actually sound different, before switching back to pop country about five seconds later. This pop country is also aggravating. It's the worst of country, never really committing to the genre, which is fine by me because modern country is pretty awful in my mind, but I agree this is more pop music than anything. Bad pop music, that is, because none of this has the goal of pop music, which is to be catchy, and I don't remember these songs two seconds after they end. How do you make a song called "Space Cowboy" boring? Or "Velvet Elvis"?

There's just really nothing here I enjoy whatsoever, and the amount of modern pop albums I could understand being on here compared to this makes this even worse. Is it as bad as a male lead vocal modern country song? No, it isn't about trucks and beer, it can attempt something more interesting, it just doesn't stick the landing whatsoever.

Muy bonito, muy country pero para mí aburrido y más o menos plano. Me quedo con la canción que da título al album "Golden Hour" y poco más.

This album surprised me. I thought I was going to hate it. I didn’t. Not bad

pop gurl

Hadn't listened to this album despite being a fan of her first release. Really enjoyed it. 4.5/5