Kacey Musgraves breaks down marriage breakup

"star-crossed," Kacey Musgraves (Interscope Records/UMG Nashville)

Kacey Musgraves breaks down the breakdown of her marriage on "starcrossed," her follow-up to 2018's Grammy winning album of the year "Golden Hour."

Musgraves delivers the story in roughly three acts of tightly woven pop/country songs: the optimism of falling in love, the sadness of drifting apart and everything that comes from the realization there is no going back.

You don't have to have suffered through a divorce to connect with the feelings Musgraves expresses about seeking and holding onto love, loss, anger and hope for a better future.