Golden Hour [Picture Disc] [B&N Exclusive]

Golden Hour [Picture Disc] [B&N Exclusive]

by Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour [Picture Disc] [B&N Exclusive]

Golden Hour [Picture Disc] [B&N Exclusive]

by Kacey Musgraves

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record - B&N Exclusive Edition)

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Overview

Golden Hour shimmers with the vivid colors that arrive when the sun starts to set, when familiar scenes achieve a sense of hyperreality. Such heightened emotions are a new aesthetic for Kacey Musgraves, who previously enlivened traditional country with her sly synthesis of old sounds and witty progressive lyrics. Musgraves barely winks on Golden Hour, disguising her newfound emotional candidness behind a gorgeous veneer of harmonies and synthesizers. Sonically, the album doesn't scan country. Whenever Musgraves makes an explicit nod to the past, she acknowledges the smooth grooves of yacht rock and the glitterball pulse of disco, styles that only have a tangential relationship with country but feel more welcome in a landscape where R&B and hip-hop are embraced by some of the biggest stars in country. Musgraves doesn't mine this vein, preferring a soft, blissed-out vibe to skittering rhythms and fleet rhymes. At their core, the songs on Golden Hour -- which Musgraves largely co-wrote with her co-producers Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, but also featuring Natalie Hemby, Luke Laird, and Shane McAnally, among other collaborators -- don't play with form: they are classic country constructions, simply given productions that ignore country conventions from either the present or the past. This is a fearless move, but Golden Hour is hardly confrontational. It's quietly confident, unfurling at its own leisurely gait, swaying between casual confessions and songs about faded love. The very sound of Golden Hour is seductive -- it's warm and enveloping, pitched halfway between heartbreak and healing -- but the album lingers in the mind because the songs are so sharp, buttressed by long, loping melodies and Musgraves' affectless soul-baring. Previously, her cleverness was her strong suit, but on Golden Hour she benefits from being direct, especially since this frankness anchors an album that sounds sweetly blissful, turning this record into the best kind of comfort: it soothes but is also a source of sustenance. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 07/12/2019
Label: Barnes Noble Consign
UPC: 0602577621055

Tracks

  1. Slow Burn
  2. Lonely Weekend
  3. Butterflies
  4. Oh, What a World
  5. Mother
  6. Love Is a Wild Thing
  7. Space Cowboy
  8. Happy & Sad
  9. Velvet Elvis
  10. Wonder Woman

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kacey Musgraves   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic)
Daniel Tashian   Bass,MIDI,Banjo,Celeste,Soloist,Mandolin,Sampling,Keyboards,Vibraphone,MIDI Guitar,Fender Rhodes,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Baritone),Guitar (Electric),Guitar (Classical),Electronic Mandolin,Fender Stratocaster,Synthesizer Strings,Vocals (Background)
Justin Schipper   Pedal Steel
Carole Neuen-Rabinowitz   Cello
Kyle Ryan   Guitar (Electric)
Todd Lombardo   Banjo,Slide Guitar,Hi String Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Baritone),Guitar (Electric),Guitar (Classical),Guitar (Nylon String),Hi String Guitar (Acoustic)
Carol Rabinowitz   Cello
Ian Fitchuk   Bass,Juno,Banjo,Drums,Piano,Vocoder,Keyboards,Wurlitzer,Percussion,Synthesizer,Guitar (Bass),Synthesizer Bass,Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
David Davidson   Viola,Violin
Russ Pahl   Pedal Steel
Dan Dugmore   Pedal Steel

Technical Credits

Hillary Lindsey   Composer
Josh Osborne   Composer
Tom Schleiter   Composer
Shawn Everett   Mixing,Effects
Bobby Shin   String Engineer
Brandy Clark   Composer
Jeremy Larson   Mixing,Mastering
Luke Dick   Composer
Mike "Frog" Griffith   Production Coordination
Karen Naff   Design Coordinator
Amy Wadge   Composer
Ryan Gore   Mixing,Engineer
Kacey Musgraves   Composer,Producer,Art Direction
Luke Laird   Composer,Producer
Jesse Frasure   Composer
Jordan Lehning   Editing
Leann Bennett   Production Coordination
Ilya Toshinskiy   Coordination
Tommy English   Composer
Gena Johnson   Production Coordination
Daniel Tashian   Composer,Producer,Programming,Digital Sampling
Andrew Mendelson   Mastering
Trent Dabbs   Composer
Steve Fallone   Mastering
Ivan Wayman   Assistant
Kelly Christine Sutton   Design,Photography,Art Direction
Zack Pancoast   Assistant
Violents   Remixing
Alberto Vaz   Assistant
Colton Jean   Assistant Engineer
Serban Ghenea   Mixing
Natalie Hemby   Composer
Ian Fitchuk   Composer,Producer,Programming
Craig Alvin   Mixing,Engineer
Shane McAnally   Composer,Producer
Charlie Brocco   Engineer
Greg Calbi   Mastering
John Hanes   Mixing Engineer
Leslie Richter   Assistant
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