Kacey Johansing Year Away

Kacey Johansing was one half of duo Yesway, and is now about to release her third album, The Hiding. The record is gentle and sunny, steeped in late ’70s soft rock but sounding very much here and now. Members of Real Estate, Fruit Bats, Vetiver, The Range of Light Wilderness, and Tall Tales and the Silver Lining helped her out making it, and we’ve got the premiere of the featherlight “Bow and Arrow,” which brings to mind some of those groups’ breezy sounds.

Kacey Musgraves’ new album star-crossed is a bold, empowering, and personal series of songs that displays the 6x GRAMMY Award winner's continued growth as one of the finest singer-songwriters of our time. It's the follow-up to Golden Hour, which earned Musgraves her third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and distinguished her as only the third artist ever to take home Album of the Year at the GRAMMY Awards, CMA Awards, and ACM Awards.

Kacey Musgraves to Release Expanded Version of ‘Deeper Well’ Project "We're going deeper," she said in announcing the expanded version, Deeper Into the Well, on Instagram.

Kacey Musgraves to Release Expanded Version of ‘Deeper Well’ Project "We're going deeper," she said in announcing the expanded version, Deeper Into the Well, on Instagram.

Kacey Musgraves to Release Expanded Version of ‘Deeper Well’ Project "We're going deeper," she said in announcing the expanded version, Deeper Into the Well, on Instagram.

Kacey Musgraves to Release Expanded Version of ‘Deeper Well’ Project "We're going deeper," she said in announcing the expanded version, Deeper Into the Well, on Instagram.

Kacey Musgraves to Release Expanded Version of ‘Deeper Well’ Project "We're going deeper," she said in announcing the expanded version, Deeper Into the Well, on Instagram.

2024 release. The music on Deeper Well, the seven-time Grammy winner's fifth album, is almost chimeric. Rolling acoustic guitars, puffy clouds of strings and synth, warm bass punctuations, layered harmonies, moments of Celtic melody and plenty of room on the tracks for Musgraves' silvery vocals. On the bright, almost folky title track, the 30-something songstress surveys her life and priorities, recognizing what feeds her, drains her and even examines the childhood she's left behind on her way to now. Saturn returns, cardinals embody a dead friend, love is given and taken, streets rush by, belongings are packed and old chapters deserted, new love blooms, jade bracelets serve as talismans, deep lessons emerge, small details define everything, the woods are a refuge and New York City serves as the same gleaming beacon as Oz.