Golden Hour (Kacey Musgraves album)

Golden Hour is the fourth studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves, released on March 30, 2018, through MCA Nashville.[4] Musgraves co-wrote all 13 tracks and co-produced the album with Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk. The album debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200.[5]

Golden Hour
Studio album by Kacey Musgraves
Released	March 30, 2018 (2018-03-30)
Recorded	January–April 2017
Studio	Big Green Barn Sound Emporium House of Blues Great Gazoo Reading Room Royal Plum (Nashville)
Genre	Country pop[1] country[2]
Length	45:44
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Ian Fitchuk Daniel Tashian Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves chronology
A Very Kacey Christmas (2016) Golden Hour (2018) The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show (2019)
Singles from Golden Hour
"Butterflies" Released: February 23, 2018 "Space Cowboy" Released: February 23, 2018 "High Horse" Released: June 25, 2018 "Slow Burn" Released: October 16, 2018 "Rainbow" Released: February 11, 2019[3]

Golden Hour received widespread acclaim from critics, winning in all four of its nominated categories at the 61st Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Country Album. The album's first two singles, "Butterflies" and "Space Cowboy", also won awards for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song, respectively.[6] Golden Hour also won Album of the Year at the 52nd Annual Country Music Association Awards.[7] A country and country pop record, Golden Hour explores elements of disco, electropop, electronica, and yacht rock.[8][9][10]

Background & Recording

Musgraves wrote and recorded most of the songs from the album throughout 2017; about the writing process she said: "I have a lot more love songs this time around, and I've never been one to write a love song and really feel it." She continued: "That probably sounds like the most depressing thing ever. [But] I'm coming off getting married and being in this golden hour of my personal life, where all these things are finally coming to fruition. I found myself inspired to write about this person and all these things he brought out in me that weren’t there before." Some of the album was recorded in a studio above a horse stable owned by musician Sheryl Crow.[11]

In a 2019 interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Musgraves discussed being under the influence of LSD when composing the songs Mother and Slow Burn and how it helped her creative process; "I’m not going to tell anybody to run out and do anything that wouldn’t be suitable for their mind or their lifestyle, but it did have positive effects for me".[12]

Promotion and packaging

On March 10, 2018, Musgraves announced the Oh, What a World: Tour in support of the album while performing at the Country to Country music festival in London. The first 12 dates of the tour were announced on March 12, with Musgraves stating on social media that tour dates in other countries would eventually be added. The tour began on October 13 in Oslo, Norway.[13][14] Musgraves announced a second leg of the tour, titled the Oh, What a World: Tour II, in February 2019.[15]

Musgraves' sister Kelly Christine Sutton took the cover photo for Golden Hour over a two-day photo shoot in and around their hometown of Golden, Texas. Sutton, who also is credited with designing the album's packaging, has previously worked with Musgraves for all of her albums' artwork. Of the cover photo, Sutton recalls Kacey "wanted to use this paper fan, and we are usually on the same page with ideas, but I couldn’t picture it. We went out into this wide open field. We needed one with no trees, so there was sky only. Almost immediately after we reviewed the photos, we just knew we had it."[16]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.1/10[17]
Metacritic	89/100[18]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Chicago Tribune	[19]
Consequence of Sound	A−[20]
The Guardian	[21]
The Independent	[22]
Pitchfork	8.7/10[23]
Rolling Stone	[24]
The Times	[25]
Uncut	7/10[26]
Vice (Expert Witness)	B+[27]

Golden Hour received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 89, based on 17 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[18] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album four and a half out of five stars and called it "warm and enveloping, pitched halfway between heartbreak and healing—but (it) lingers in the mind because the songs are so sharp, buttressed by long, loping melodies and Musgraves' affectless soul baring."[9] Writing for The Independent and rating the album a perfect 5 out of 5, Roisin O'Connor states the album is "a reminder that sometimes – often, if you're looking in the right places – life is beautiful."[22] Additionally, it was a Spin "Essential" and of the genre-bending songs on the album, reviewer Katherine St. Asaph calls it "not classicist, but perhaps it might be classic."[28] The album was rated number one by the BBC poll of polls, a compilation of 'best of the year lists' across 35 music reviewers, on a list of the best albums of 2018.[29] The album also placed number one in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 2018.[30]

Accolades

Awards

Association	Year	Category	Result
CMA Awards[31]	2018	Album of the Year	Won
Apple Music[32]	2018	Album of the Year	Won
Grammy Awards[33]	2019	Album of the Year	Won
		Best Country Album	Won
		Best Country Song (for "Space Cowboy")	Won
		Best Country Solo Performance (for "Butterflies")	Won
ACM Awards[34]	2019	Album of the Year	Won
		Song of the Year (for "Space Cowboy")	Nominated
CMT Music Awards[35]	2019	Video of the Year (for "Rainbow")	Nominated
		Female Video of the Year (for "Space Cowboy")	Nominated
CMA Awards[36]	2019	Song of the Year (for "Rainbow")	Nominated
		Music Video of the Year (for "Rainbow")	Won

Year-end lists

Publication	Rank	List
AllMusic	N/A	The Best Albums of 2018[37]
American Songwriter	1	Top 25 Albums of 2018[38]
Associated Press	2	Top 10 Albums of 2018[39]
Apple	1	The Best Album of 2018[40]
Billboard	2	The 50 Best Albums of 2018: Critics' Picks[41]
Complex	36	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[42]
Consequence of Sound	9	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[43]
Entertainment Weekly	1	The 20 Best Albums of 2018[44]
The Independent	4	The 40 Best Albums of 2018[45]
Noisey	2	The 100 Best Albums of 2018[46]
NPR Music	3	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[47]
Paste	44	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[48]
People	1	Top 10 Albums of 2018[49]
Pitchfork	2	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[50]
PopMatters	2	The 70 Best Albums of 2018[51]
Rolling Stone	2	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[52]
Sputnikmusic	1	Top 50 Albums of 2018[53]
Stereogum	1	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[54]
Taste of Country	1	The 10 Best Country Albums of 2018[55]
Idolator	3	The 25 Best Albums Of 2018[56]
Time	8	The 10 Best Albums of 2018[57]
Uncut	73	The 75 Best Albums of 2018[58]
Uproxx	2	The 50 Best Albums of 2018[59]
	1	Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Albums[60]
The Village Voice	1	Pazz & Jop: The Top 100 Albums of 2018[30]
Vulture	4	The Best Albums of 2018 [61]

Decade-end lists

Publication	Rank	List
The A.V. Club	27	The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s[62]
Billboard	6	The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s[63]
Billboard	3	The 25 Best Country Albums of the 2010s[64]
Cleveland.com	12	100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s[65]
Consequence of Sound	85	The 100 Top Albums of the 2010s[66]
Paste	9	The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s[67]
Pitchfork	23	The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s[68]
Rolling Stone	11	The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s[69]
Uproxx	11	The Best Albums of the 2010s[70]

Commercial performance

Golden Hour debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 and at number one on the Top Country Albums chart with 49,000 album-equivalent units, with 39,000 of that figure being pure album sales in its first week.[5] It marks Musgraves’ third number one on the US Top Country Albums chart. It also debuted at number one on the Americana/Folk Albums chart.[71] In the chart week following the 61st Grammy Awards, where Golden Hour won Album of the Year, the album returned to the top ten, climbing to number nine on the chart, selling 35,000 copies.[72] In February 2019, the album has reached 310,000 in album-equivalent units sold.[73] On June 28, 2019, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units.[74] As of February 2020, the album has sold 735,000 units in the United States .[75]

In the United Kingdom, Golden Hour debuted at number six on the official UK Albums Chart and at number one on the UK Country Albums chart. It marks Musgraves' first top ten album in the UK.[76]

Track listing

Credits adapted from liner notes.[77]

All tracks are produced by Daniel Tashian, Ian Fitchuk, and Kacey Musgraves.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Slow Burn"	Tashian Fitchuk Musgraves	4:06
2.	"Lonely Weekend"	Tashian Fitchuk Musgraves	3:46
3.	"Butterflies"	Luke Laird Natalie Hemby Musgraves	3:39
4.	"Oh, What a World"	Tashian Fitchuk Musgraves	4:01
5.	"Mother"	Tashian Fitchuk Musgraves	1:18
6.	"Love Is a Wild Thing"	Tashian Fitchuk Musgraves	4:16
7.	"Space Cowboy"	Shane McAnally Laird Musgraves	3:36
8.	"Happy & Sad"	Tashian Fitchuk Musgraves	4:03
9.	"Velvet Elvis"	Luke Dick Hemby Musgraves	2:34
10.	"Wonder Woman"	Jesse Frasure Hillary Lindsey Amy Wadge Musgraves	4:00
11.	"High Horse"	Tommy Schleiter Trent Dabbs Musgraves	3:33
12.	"Golden Hour"	Tashian Fitchuk Musgraves	3:18
13.	"Rainbow"	Hemby McAnally Musgraves	3:34
Total length:			45:44

Japanese bonus tracks[78]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
14.	"Merry Go 'Round"	Osborne McAnally Musgraves	3:28
15.	"Follow Your Arrow"	Clark McAnally Musgraves	3:21
16.	"High Horse" (Violents Remix)	Schleiter Dabbs Musgraves	3:43
Total length:			56:11

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[77]

Instrumentation Daniel Tashian – keyboards (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11), bass guitar (1, 3, 7, 10, 12), background vocals (1, 2, 4, 6–9, 12), Fender Stratocaster (2, 8, 9), electric guitar (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11), baritone guitar (solo on 3, 12), acoustic guitar (4, 6, 7, 11), celeste (6), banjo (6), electric mandolin (8), programming (8), vibraphone (9), MIDI strings (9), classical guitar (9), Elektron sampler (10), Rhodes (10) Todd Lombardo – acoustic guitar (1–4, 6–12), electric guitar (1, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12), banjo (1, 3, 11), high strung acoustic guitar (2), baritone guitar (8, 12), slide guitar (8), classical guitar (9, 11) Ian Fitchuk – drums (1–4, 6–12), keyboards (1, 2, 4, 6–8, 10, 11), percussion (2, 4, 6–11), bass guitar (2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11), Roland Juno-60 (3, 12), piano (3, 5, 7, 8, 10–13), programming (4, 8), vocoder (4), banjo (4), background vocals (4), Wurlitzer (8), electric guitar (9, 11), synth bass (10, 11) David Davidson – violin (1, 8, 11), viola (1, 8, 11) Carole Rabinowitz – cello (1, 8, 11) Kacey Musgraves – lead vocals (1–13), acoustic guitar (3, 9, 12) Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar (3, 8, 12) Justin Schipper – pedal steel guitar (4) Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar (6, 7) Shawn Everett – "dolphin magic" (8) Kyle Ryan – electric guitar (9)

Technical Craig Alvin – recording, mixing (5, 13) Alberto Vaz – recording assistance Zack Pancoast – recording assistance Shawn Everett – mixing (1, 2, 4, 6–10, 12) Ivan Wayman – mixing assistance (1, 2, 4, 6–10, 12) Serban Ghenea – mixing (3, 11) John Hanes – engineering for mix (3, 11) Gena Johnson – production coordination Bobby Shin – strings recording Jordan Lehning – editing Greg Calbi – mastering Steve Fallone – mastering Artwork Kelly Christine Sutton – art direction, photography, design Kacey Musgraves – art direction

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2018) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[79] 25 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[80] 111 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[81] 11 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[82] 105 Irish Albums (IRMA)[83] 27 New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[84] 2 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[85] 15 Scottish Albums (OCC)[86] 3 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[87] 43 UK Albums (OCC)[88] 6 UK Country Albums (OCC)[89] 1 US Billboard 200[5] 4 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[90] 1 US Folk Albums (Billboard)[91] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2018) Position US Americana/Folk Albums (Billboard)[92] 8 US Top Current Albums (Billboard)[93] 32 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[94] 34 Chart (2019) Position US Billboard 200[95] 86 US Americana/Folk Albums (Billboard)[96] 2 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[97] 7

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[98]	Gold	500,000
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label	Ref.
United States	March 30, 2018	CD digital download vinyl	MCA Nashville	[99]
Japan	July 4, 2018	CD	Universal Music Japan	[100]

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