go listen to kacey musgraves

then go read this nytimes article.

    Same Trailer Different Park, the debut album from country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves, is easily the best thing you’ll hear this week. On the back of lead single “Merry Go ‘Round,” a dazzling portrait of small-town insularity that packs the unromantic compassion of an entire season of Friday Night Lights into one three-minute pop song, Musgraves’ first LP is quietly self-assured and breathtaking in its clear-eyed, unsentimental storytelling. More than her direct contemporaries in the mainstream country scene like Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert, Musgraves evokes a handful of underrated alt-folk singer-songwriters from the last decade — Kasey Chambers and Kathleen Edwards, namely — with a finely honed pop sensibility and a keen knack for detail. via