“There aren’t any real misses on Deeper Well, and the record feels more like a dreamy mood piece or conversation with a friend than an attempt to round up a collection of chart-ready singles or social media-friendly soundbytes. Musgraves was far more interested in asking the bigger questions — and it doesn’t even seem to matter too much which answers she found. The deep dive was the point.”
“The country heiress returns with a balanced, serene new album that draws in equal measure from the sounds of ‘70s folk and adult contemporary radio.”
“Kacey Musgraves searches for lasting peace on Deeper Well”
“Kacey Musgraves has turned over a new leaf. On the serene title track of her sixth album, Deeper Well, the Nashville-based country crossover star, known for singing about her love of smoking weed, admits that she has given it up. Within that admission, and the song’s delicate, pared-back pop-country arrangement, is the promise of a more clarified, mature iteration of Musgraves, and sometimes that’”
“navigating new beginnings leads to mixed results”
