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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.

Rosegold
Studio album by Ashley Monroe
Released	April 30, 2021
Genre	Country pop hip hop
Length	31:14
Label	Mountainrose Sparrow Thirty Tigers
Ashley Monroe chronology
Sparrow (2018) Rosegold (2021)

Reception

Rosegold ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	5.9/10[2]
Metacritic	70/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Paste	7.6/10[5]
Pitchfork	5.7/10[6]
Slant	[7]
Under the Radar	[8]

Rosegold received generally favorable reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. It has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 7 reviews.[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

Charts

Chart performance for Rosegold

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

References

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