Maren Morris is releasing her new album, Humble Quest on 25th March via Sony Nashville. The album features lead single, ‘Circles Around This Town’ and 10 other songs from the Grammy-winning superstar.

She began writing the songs on Humble Quest at the beginning of the pandemic as a series of major life changes unfolded—new motherhood, an upended career, the death of beloved friend and collaborator Michael Busbee and more, further compounded by the lockdown.

Maren found herself reckoning with humility in ways she’d never imagined, as she thought about how the goal of appearing humble puts artists - especially women - in a box with unrealistic demands to keep them small.

It's Morris' first studio album since the release of her 2019 album, Girl.

To say Humble Quest is a re-embrace of country is misleading insofar as it suggests Morris, who can conjure a Texan Amy Winehouse, was ever a neat fit for the genre, or that she ever aspired to be. That said, the album is a near-perfect expression of country-pop post-Golden Hour, the high-water mark by Morris’ Lone Star pal Kacey Musgraves: music channeling the ’70s California rock that channeled classic country songcraft. Humble Quest may be filigreed with pedal steel, dobro, and mandolin, but it runs on guitars, synth washes, big drums, and bigger choruses. It’s all shaped with the help of Greg Kurstin, a master of pop-rock-soul triangulation who produced Morris’ hit “The Bones” along with projects by Adele, Sia, and Beck ( whose Sea Change and Morning Phase might prove West Coast touchstones as significant for a new generation of country acts as the Eagles’ Greatest Hits has been for the past one ).

Tracks

• 1 Circles Around This Town
• 2 The Furthest Thing
• 3 I Can't Love You Anymore
• 4 Humble Quest
• 5 Background Music
• 6 Nervous
• 7 Tall Guys
• 8 Detour
• 9 Hummingbird
• 10 Good Friends
• 11 What Would This World Do?