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Pitchfork 7.7/10 Kacey Musgraves’ chronicle of marriage and divorce looks to the stars but takes pains to stay grounded. Writing in the plain language of someone desperate to be understood, she sounds alternately vulnerable and triumphant.
A.V. Club B On her fourth studio album, Musgraves travels a road well-weathered by country women musicians
NME 4/5 The pop's dissection of a crumbling relationship is split into three parts, never collapsing under its own concept
The Line of Best Fit 10/10 Kacey Musgraves reckons with life's hurt and becomes an icon on star-crossed
Evening Standard 4/5 A doomed marriage is excavated in the Grammy-winning musician’s fifth album
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 Millennial country hero Kacey Musgraves' fifth album, 'Star-Crossed', grapples with breaking up and growing up.
DIY 4/5 Far from spinning distant, third-person tales, each track feels incredibly personal.
The Independent 3/5 Grammy-winner’s new record was inspired by ‘Romeo and Juliet’, but it seldom matches the play’s rough passion
The Forty Five 3.5/5 Kacey Musgraves continues to court pop on a new fourth album, 'Star-Crossed', dimmed by her recent divorce.
Under The Radar 4.5/10 What light through yonder window breaks? Suffice it to say on Kacey Musgraves’ Romeo and Juliet inspired break-up album, star-crossed, the light is not that shared with her Golden Hour. Not anywhere close.
Clash 9/10 What if our darkest tragedy became our greatest triumph? That’s the question Kacey Musgraves seeks to answer in ‘star-crossed’, her
Slant 4/5 Kacey Musgraves's ‘Star-Crossed’ is just as accessible as its predecessor, but it’s also far afield of modern radio tropes. Read our review.
Pop Matters 8/10 On Star-Crossed Kacey Musgraves continues to make use of her signature wounded wit to expose the hypocrisy that often lies within heteronormative gender roles.
The Guardian 3/5 The bliss of Musgraves’ Grammy-winning Golden Hour sours on this follow-up, with a breakup narrative that is a little too tidy
