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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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  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. 100
    Yet 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.
  2. May 1, 2026
    88
    That’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.
  3. Uncut
    Apr 30, 2026
    80
    Line for line it's her best and funniest album in a decade. [Jun 2026, p.33]
  4. Apr 30, 2026
    80
    If Musgraves seemed slightly adrift in the years since 2018’s Golden Hour, Middle of Nowhere marks a true homecoming.
  5. May 5, 2026
    80
    Musgraves 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.
  6. Apr 30, 2026
    79
    She 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.
  7. May 1, 2026
    50
    Sometimes staid and sometimes stirring, Middle of Nowhere finds her at a creative crossroads, in the middle of the road.

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