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- Summary: The latest full-length release from singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves features guest appearances by Gregory Alan Isakov, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Willie Nelson.
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- Record Label: Lost Highway
- Genre(s): Country, Pop/Rock
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Apr 30, 2026Yet another career-best offering. .... Her voice is clear, pure and precise – delivered over deftly picked acoustic and swooning slide guitars – making each truth all the more devastating. Middle of Nowhere isn’t Musgraves at an impasse. No, she’s exactly where she needs to be.
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May 1, 2026That’s the trick of Middle of Nowhere: it never rushes to define what comes next. Instead, Musgraves lingers in the in-between, finding humor, heartbreak and a surprising amount of peace along the way.
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UncutApr 30, 2026Line for line it's her best and funniest album in a decade. [Jun 2026, p.33]
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Apr 30, 2026If Musgraves seemed slightly adrift in the years since 2018’s Golden Hour, Middle of Nowhere marks a true homecoming.
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May 5, 2026Musgraves is gifted at letting the melodrama slip into something sensual and ‘Mexico Honey’, and its neon-lit innuendos, proves that her pen is still razor sharp. .... Her voice is as serene as ever and it rarely complicates her desire to embrace the undefined. If anything, it amplifies it through her day-glo incisiveness.
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Apr 30, 2026She knows exactly what she’s doing here – instead of simply incorporating other musical elements within country, Musgraves is inverting the process – she’s incorporating country music elements within other musical forms, often searching the best balance between the two.
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May 1, 2026Sometimes staid and sometimes stirring, Middle of Nowhere finds her at a creative crossroads, in the middle of the road.