So why is Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour on this best 1,000 albums ever thing?
This isn’t the kind of album I’d normally gravitate toward sight unseen – what Rolling Stone calls a mix of “Sade and Dolly Parton.”
And for a completely different angle, All Music describes Golden Hour as follows:
Golden Hour shimmers with the vivid colors that arrive when the sun starts to set, when familiar scenes achieve a sense of hyperreality.
What I do know is that when I throw on songs like “Butterflies,” it’s just flipping gorgeous. Yep, that’s my term for it: flipping gorgeous. Even though the “butterflies” are emotional and not physical, the mood and effervescent spirit of the song are perfectly matched with the slow but sure emergence of spring here in Seattle as of this writing.
“Velvet Elvis” is a perfect mesh of pop, country, and rock, with Musgraves’ velvety voice the cherry on top. I also like the concept that someone can have one’s personal “velvet Elvis” as a love song or tribute of some kind.
“Lonely Weekend” leans a little more into Musgraves’ pop sensibilities. There’s just something so compelling and inherently positive or hopeful about Musgraves’ voice that I’m happy hanging with whatever style she chooses to emphasize.
Some stats & info about Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
- What kind of musical stylings does this album represent? Pop, Pop Music, Country, Country Rock
- Rolling Stone’s greatest 500 albums ranking – #270
- All Music’s rating – 4.5 out of 5 stars
- When was Golden Hour released? 2018
- My ranking, the one you’re reading right now – #796 out of 1,000
Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour on Spotify
A lyrical snippet from Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour that’s evocative of the album in some way, maybe
Yeah, you give me butterflies.
What does the “best 1,000 albums ever” mean and why are you doing this?
Yeah, I know it’s audacious, a little crazy (okay, maybe a lot cray cray), bordering on criminal nerdery.
But here’s what it’s NOT: a definitive list of the Greatest Albums of All-Time. This is 100% my own personal super biased, incredibly subjective review of what my top 1,000 albums are, ranked in painstaking order over the course of doing research for nearly a year, Rob from High Fidelity style. Find out more about why I embarked on a best 1,000 albums ever project.