The job requires integrity, and throughout Deeper Well Musgraves must stick to everything he learned from his astrologer and therapist (who, we hope, aren't the same person). “My Saturn is back,” she declares at the beginning of the album's title track, explaining how in the eight years since she turned 27, she has learned from the people around her who exude “dark energy.” He explains how he gradually freed himself. However, like the stars, self-care words aren't too distracting. It's a gorgeous, fluid breakup ballad about resilience and closure, and Musgraves uses her signature gorgeous flatness to translate the physical landscape of her Texas hometown into sound. singing this song.
On “Dinner with Friends,” she pledges her love for her homeland with an asterisk, praising “the sky and horses and dogs, but no laws,” and saying, “The architect, God, in the palm of her hand.” I wondered how she designed Honeycrisp. “Even something as small as an apple, it's simple yet somehow complex,” she sings. “Sweet and divine, perfect design. May I speak to the architect?” Musgraves gently tweaks the song's last line as an acoustic guitar and piano play a quiet waltz in the background. , causing us all to tumble into the void.teeth Do you have an architect?
The production choices throughout “Deeper Well” also sound artistic and thoughtful, despite feeling very literal. “Cardinal” is a beautiful, chiming, slightly psychedelic song about a portentous bird delivering “a message from the other side,” but it feels as if it was made to jingle like the Birds. In “Deeper Well,” the notes that follow the refrain are treated with reverb that evokes a coin thrown into a watering hole. But above all, watch out for the drums. They are propulsive and rich, like a bean bag bouncing on a cornhole board (a “cardinal”), an open hand tapping on a tabletop (a “sway”), or an empty cardboard box. Something like a ping pong ball bouncing around inside (Moonbus song “Jade Green''). Sonically, the album's message is about forward momentum, evolution, and the need for progress. The fundamental saving grace for Musgraves in her health phase is that she is getting through her health phase.
