Kacey Musgraves Teases New Album, ‘Golden Hour’

Musgraves' fourth full-length release will feature a lot more love songs than normal thanks to inspiration from her husband Ruston Kelly.

Written by Kelly Brickey
Kacey Musgraves Teases New Album, ‘Golden Hour’
Kacey Musgraves; Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images

Kacey Musgraves set out to represent all sides of her personality when it came to create her fourth album.

Not shying away from topics such as love and loneliness, the quirky singer opened up her soul while making Golden Hour as a way to let her fans in even more to her open heart. Establishing certain personas throughout each song, Musgraves revealed that she let it all show rather than hiding behind the curtain.

“I was thinking about how there are different masks that we wear that represent different sides of us,” she explained to Entertainment Weekly. “None of the masks are solely us, but they’re all us. On this record, there’s the lonely girl, the blissful girl, the new wife, the girl that’s missing her mom, the angry girl, the sarcastic girl, the ‘60s-sequined Cruella de Vil with the beehive, the shy girl, the life of the party, the winner, the loser — they’re all characters on this record. None of them alone are me, but the golden hour is when they all come together and you see me as a whole.”

After falling madly in love with her now husband, Ruston Kelly, Musgraves also admitted that her songs may sound a bit more romantic this time around compared to her past releases thanks to their relationship being so magical.

“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. 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,” she explained.

Fans can also expect different sounds than they’ve ever heard from the singer, as she dubbed the album as “trippy” and cited inspirations from the Bee Gees to Sade.

Golden Hour is expected to arrive in early 2018.