Humble Quest
| Maren Morris
Humble Quest
Humble Quest is the third major label studio album by American country singer and songwriter Maren Morris. The album was released on March 25, 2022, through Columbia Nashville. -Wikipedia
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Americana Highways
The album wraps with change in the other direction – Morris lost longtime collaborator Michael Busbee to cancer in 2019, and this was her first album without him. Written with husband Hurd and Jon Green and recorded as a simple piano duet with Hurd, “What Would This World Do?” has the singer realizing that the world spins on, despite the void left by losing a lifelong friend – “Out of everybody, I’ll only have one you.” On the heels of such an incomprehensible amount of loss over the past two years, sometimes the person gets lost in the numbers. Morris reminds us that each one of those individuals mattered – immensely – to someone.
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Pitchfork
The Nashville songwriter returns with a comfortable set of country-pop, colored by grief and new motherhood. It feels matter-of-factly masterful.
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Highway Queens
Overall this album feels like meeting a newly melancholic, mellow Maren Morris. Her voice is as distinctive and emotive as ever and that’s what will keep her having a career, long after commercial trends have come and gone. Finding something worth singing about is the harder task of an artist. Her Humble Quest is an admirable one, even if you feel she hasn’t found her true destination just yet. Next time you hope she puts the pedal down a little more.
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AllMusic
Humble Quest is a mature record in its approach in addition to its theme, a record that offers warm consolation in hours of trouble as well as breezy relaxation during the good times.
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Belles & Gals
What would we do without Maren – great songwriting from her and her team and top-notch production from Greg Kurstin make this arguably her best album to date!
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Medium
The heartfelt piano ballad shows Morris’ vocal range, both physically and emotionally. It’s a true highlight of the album, and a beautiful tribute to his memory, making plain how much he meant to both of them.
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Sputnik Music
Humble Quest: a fine country pop album, but a nondescript one that doesn’t warrant much replayability.
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Rolling Stone
The country star’s third album is fascinating, and proudly unresolved.
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No Depression
Amid all the soulful exploration, Morris can turn a phrase with a sly wink like the best of them. “Tall Guys,” a cheeky ode to her husband and a co-write with her Highwomen bandmate Natalie Hemby, is equal parts humor and sweetness. As are the swooning love songs “Detour” and “Background Music,” two of Humble Quest’s brightest moments. On the latter, she finds the romance in the morbid idea of musicians fading away into obscurity: “Baby, all we’ll ever be to them in a hundred years / Is three minutes in a car, in a bar / That says ‘we were here.’”
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5 Finger Review
Humble Quest is a strong album for Morris and affirms her ability to present a flowing pop-country album of depth. Her collaboration with her husband adds to the project, and she keeps things positive even as the world goes mad around her. Humble Quest is another solid album, another stepping stone in her ever-growing career.
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Spectrum Culture
The Nashville pop star keeps searching, singing, “I still haven't found it yet,” but with this album, she's locked onto a strong statement, a declarative in the midst of a world of interrogatives.
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The Musical Divide
it feels like it could have been Morris’ attempt to dig deeper and say something more or just go for either the direct pop or country pivot without feeling like it had to had beholden to both worlds. And that it doesn’t and just feels like gets lost in the noise instead – that feels like a quest without any real fulfillment.
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