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Kacey Musgraves – ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ review: a country heroine’s journey back to her roots

NME·Cordelia Lam·about 1 month ago
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For Kacey Musgraves ’ latest act, she’s putting the cowboy hat back on. ‘Middle Of Nowhere’, the Texan artist’s seventh album, unfolds like an old Western film. With Musgraves as its balladeering protagonist, it takes us on a wry, roaming journey through the highs and lows of love and womanhood – from loneliness and “dry spells” to infatuation and disappointment – before arriving at its ultimate destination: back to Musgraves herself. READ MORE: No Na: the fiery R&B girl group bringing Indonesia to the world Stepping back into the saddle – she literally arrived to her Coachella set on horseback last month – this version of Musgraves is the closest we’ve had to her early music in years. From the gently snarky ‘Everybody Wants To Be A Cowboy’ to the liminal dispatch from the desert, ‘Coyote’, this is the steely, stripped-down, bluegrass-inspired storytelling of ‘Same Trailer Different Park’.…

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