Rosegold
A photograph of the artist, body facing leftward but looking over her left shoulder into the camera. Her hair is pink, she's wearing a backless orange dress, and she's stood in a field of tall orange flowers in golden hour light with a line of trees in the background. Across the top is a plain black band with her name written in small orange text above the album name in larger bolded text which is black with a red outline.
Studio album by
Ashley Monroe
ReleasedApril 30, 2021
Genre
Length31:14
Label
Ashley Monroe chronology
Sparrow
(2018)		 Rosegold
(2021)

Rosegold is the fifth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe, released April 30, 2021, via Mountainrose Sparrow and Thirty Tigers.[1] It follows her 2018 solo release Sparrow, as well as her album Interstate Gospel as part of the country group Pistol Annies from the same year.

Reception

Rosegold ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?5.9/10[2]
Metacritic70/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Paste7.6/10[5]
Pitchfork5.7/10[6]
Slant[7]
Under the Radar[8]

According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Rosegold received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 70 out of 100 from 7 critic scores.[3] AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote, "Sometimes, Rosegold threatens to drift away yet it's never threadbare: It's a singular mood piece, one that suits a spell of twilight reflection."[4] Paste's Ellen Johnson wrote, "It's easy to sink into these 10 songs".[5] Pitchfork's Stephen M. Deusner wrote that Monroe "flattens out the twang and borrows from pop and hip-hop, to mixed results", and that "once you get past the gutsiness of an artist willing to jettison her comfort zone, what you're left with is muddled and unsatisfying."[6]

Under the Radar's Mark Moody wrote that "If more focused, and either working exclusively with [producer Mike] Reaves or someone outside the Nashville inner circle, Rosegold could have had more of a chance to shine as a unified release. As it is, there are a handful of worthwhile singles worth mining, but unlike Monroe's work to date, as a whole the album doesn't coalesce as it could have."[8] Slate's Jim Malec wrote that the album "once again finds the singer-songwriter traversing new ground, but it's an even sharper departure from her previous work", and that "it's an ambitious exercise in style that's ultimately lacking in substance."[7]

Track listing

Rosegold track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)ProducerLength
1."Siren"
  • Aaron Raitiere
  • Ashley Monroe
  • Mikey Reaves
Reaves3:32
2."Silk"
  • Raitiere
  • Monroe
  • Jordan Reynolds
Reynolds3:22
3."Gold"
Chapman3:18
4."See"
  • Raitiere
  • Monroe
  • Jacob Mitchell
Mitchell2:26
5."Drive"
  • Monroe
  • Reaves
  • Nikko Moon
Reaves2:48
6."Flying"
Reynolds2:50
7."Groove"
  • Raitiere
  • Monroe
  • Reaves
Reaves2:37
8."'Til It Breaks"
  • Monroe
  • Ashley Ray
  • Ben West
West3:21
9."I Mean It"
  • Monroe
  • Chapman
Chapman3:25
10."The New Me"
Tyler Cain3:32
Total length:31:14

Charts

Chart performance for Rosegold
Chart (2021) Peak
position
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard)[9] 73

References

  1. ↑ Minsker, Evan (February 19, 2021). "Ashley Monroe Announces New Album Rosegold, Shares Video for New Song "Drive"". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Rosegold by Ashley Monroe reviews". Any Decent Music. April 30, 2021. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Rosegold by Ashley Monroe Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. April 30, 2021. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  4. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (April 30, 2021). "Rosegold – Ashley Monroe". AllMusic. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  5. 1 2 Johnson, Ellen (April 28, 2021). "Ashley Monroe Peers Through Rose-Colored Glasses on New Album". Paste. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Deusner, Stephen M. (May 4, 2021). "Ashley Monroe: Rosegold Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  7. 1 2 Malec, Jim (April 26, 2021). "Review: Ashley Monroe's Rosegold Favors Aesthetics Over Substance". Slant Magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  8. 1 2 Moody, Mark (May 3, 2021). "Rosegold". Under the Radar. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Ashley Monroe Chart History: Top Current Albums". Billboard. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
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