For fans of: High-Quality New Country Music

What they're saying: Andrew Gulden at American Highways gives Maren Morris credit for her songwriting chops in this glowing review: “You don’t get invited to join The Highwomen if you can’t write, plain and simple… Humble Quest, continues to mix pop-country hooks with the insight of a still-young woman turning over new stones in life and finding both the happiness and the discomfort beneath.” And here is more praise in an excellent summary of Humble Quests’ sounds and influences from Will Hermes at Pitchfork: “The Linda Ronstadt-in-Laurel Canyon vibe of Humble Quest might not be what you’d expected from Maren Morris at this point—though given her aerial-ballet career arc, it was hard to know what to expect… Yet the music on her third album is largely joyous and bright, both playful and profound, full of easy, comfortable pleasures that feel deeper for being hard-won.”

What we say: 2022 looks like a great year for new country music so far, and Maren Morris (who you may remember from the Brandi Carlile featuring supergroup The Highwomen) has contributed with her excellent new LP with Humble Quest.