The Pop Corporation

Kacey Musgraves is as camp as you can get, and it’s nice to hear her back in goofy mode, as that’s one of her best lanes.

The gentle psychedelic strum of ‘Golden Hour’ and ‘Deeper Well’ isn’t present on this new track, ‘Dry Spell’. Instead, she’s horsing around a la ‘Pageant Material’, and it suits her.

Musgraves has told us all that the new album ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ is inspired by liminal spaces and the longest time she’s been single in her adult life, but no wallowing – she’s cocking an eyebrow and sings “lonely with a capital H, if you know what I mean” before telling us she’s been “sat on the washing machine.”

She then runs through a buncha puns which are as silly as you like. It’s all very fun.

“Y’all – I’m going through a dry spell” she playfully shrugs.

This feels like a return to the Kacey we met all those years ago on her first two albums, so here’s hoping that the new one is every bit as good.

She’s always been a treasure, so we’ll be tuning in keenly, when the full thing drops.