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Kacey Musgraves On Trusting Emotion At The 'Golden Hour' Of Her Life

The country singer discusses branching out from small-town nostalgia, getting married and bringing Daft Punk to classic country for her latest album, Golden Hour.
Kacey Musgraves' <em>Golden Hour </em>mixes her country-pop sound with disco and house.

Kacey Musgraves has long been known for her classic country confessional style combined with a pop sensibility. Her first two major label albums, 2013's Same Trailer, Different Park and 2015's Pageant Material, tackled small-town nostalgia and the coming-of-age reckonings of a young woman unafraid to talk back to the world around her.

Her latest album Golden Hour builds on this lineage with greater sonic and thematic maturity. The music is her response to embracing happiness after a new marriage and trusting emotion as an intrinsic part of her process.

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