And I have to say I was totally blown away by it. After 2 listens I was telling my mum about her and looking to get tickets for her concert. I loved the way my mum described her by saying she is like Taylor Swift but better. Now if that is not a compliment of the highest level of compliments I don't know what is! The thing is while I would compare Kacey's previous albums to Taylor Swift's earlier albums. This album is more in the direction of people like Katie Melua or Norah Jones. What I mean by this is that it's more showing off her voice and her range. Rather than being country, for the large part of the album I would say it's more easy listening. And when I say easy listening I really do mean it. This album will make you feel like you are on a sailing boat, relaxing in the calmist of waters.
The first track "Slow Burn" is the first track on the album and the first track I heard by Musgraves. This track instantly drew me in as her vocals were just so pure and even after many many listens I still get the same buzz when I hear this song. I love one of the lyrics in this song as she sings about when the sun is going down in Tennessee, the people in Beijing are just getting up for work. Like she must have actually done the research for that lyric. I appreciate the effort anyway. :-) Kacey is well known for her lyrics though and this album like her others still has Kacey's views of the world.
And the world is quite a common topic. She just seems overawed with her surroundings, the album just oozes happiness and just being grateful for her situation. One of the stand out songs on the album which really sums this up is "Oh what a world". The song starts of with an electronic voice over which I have only ever heard used on Linkin Park's album "A thousand suns". Bet you never thought you'd hear Linkin Park written in the same sentence as Kacey Musgraves! There are probably other artists which use this technique too. It works well as an introduction and when she starts singing "Northern lights....." , again total goosebumps. But I think the actual chorus is the best part. "Oh what a world........and then there is you" , then this amazing bit of acoustic guitar kicks in. This really does sum up the album and as I said before exactly how happy she is with her life at the moment.
"Lonely weekend" is another track I really like and follows a great list of artists such as the Bluetones, Craig David and the guys who wrote the theme song to "Happy Days". How does she follow this list of random artists. This song goes through the days in the week! A great track. "Space Cowboy" and "Velvet Elvis" are other worthy mentions. There is a song though which destroys the label of this album being easy listening but in a good way. "High horse" is a really upbeat pop number. Even if the lyrics are about someone being full of themselves and killing the party kind of a person. It shows a different side to Kacey and is song that proves if she wants to go more in the direction that Swift went down she is more than capable of doing it.
Overall this is an absolutley cracking album and it's one of those albums when you do ratings out of 5 you have to re-think other albums you gave 5 stars too. As this is one of the best albums I have listened to this year. I am looking forward to really getting into her 2 previous albums more. But I think the thing about this album showed which the other 2 didn't as much is just how good a singer Kacey is and it is exciting to see what the future holds for her.
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