Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The trailer has moved on, the park it was resting upon has been left behind, and now that same trailer occupies a substantial plot in the playground of the comfortably polished and sincerely cool.
For the fan and admirer of Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well marks a point of delivery to which the listener cannot but help but be impressed and fulsome in their honest appraisal of the country star’s continuing dominance in the genre and beyond.
Whilst other albums, perhaps notably Star-Crossed, and the debut offering of Same Trailer Different Park were emotionally fierce, where they were dealing with an avenue of life that resonated with a those to whom the trials and tribulations of the age were caught up in the lyrics to which Ms. Musgraves sang with absolute authority, of will and empathy, Deeper Well taps into an identification, into a relationship of a woman inhabiting her mid-thirties with grace and connection…whilst never losing the truth of what made her the way she is.
That relationship stands out through the application of musical rapport that exists in the tremendous musicians Daniel Tashian, Ian Fitchuk, and Todd Lombardo amongst others, and their interpretation of the tracks such as Too Good To Be True, Dinner With Friends, Heart Of The Woods, Lonely Millionaire, and the wonderful finale of Nothing To Be Scared Of, the connection is instant, it is unflinching, and captures arguably a new period in Ms. Musgraves life.
The voice is one that frames the album, without that sense of delicate and immediacy, the result could be unsettlingly different, but as is expected Kacy Musgraves pinpoints every high and praises all the lows with accuracy and intimidation of spirit.
A different park, a trailer that took the country star along for the first few albums, now is altered and changed to that of a place of splendour, one that epitomises the channelling of emotions in a way that is unashamed of the glittering chandelier that hangs from the resplendent ceiling, one that is built on a foundation of sturdy concrete and furnished with honour.Ian D. Hall