Deeper Well [Translucent Cream]

Description

Kacey Musgraves’ 2024 album Deeper Wellpressed on 180-gram transparent cream vinyl.

…the understated music on Deeper Wellfits its theme: Comfort and care are lifes biggest prizes and the fear of upending that careful balance is what keeps you up at night. (I think about you often/Worrying that I might drive/The nail into the coffin, from Nothing to Be Scared Of, might be the albums best lyric.) When there are details, they are delicate: Giver/Taker, one of several songs about how all one really needs is love, is sparsely wreathed with banjo and cello and has an intricate beauty. The Architect, the lone song with Musgraves old core co-writer, Shane McAnally, sticks out for its nesting Russian doll structure, mirroring Musgraves worried spiral about whether theres logic to the universe.

Pitchfork

Side A:

1. Cardinal
2. Deeper Well
3. Too Good to be True
4. Moving Out
5. Giver / Taker
6. Sway
7. Dinner with Friends

Side B:

1. Heart of the Woods
2. Jade Green
3. The Architect
4. Lonely Millionaire
5. Heaven Is
6. Anime Eyes
7. Nothing to be Scared Of