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World's Gone Wrong

Lucinda Williams

World's Gone Wrong

Sixteenth studio album from the Grammy award-winning Americana legend working with producers Tom Overby and Ray Kennedy

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Highway 20
UK Release date
23/01/2026
US Release date
23/01/2026
  1. 8.0 |   Mojo

    NEW Even as she turns 73, Williams sounds present, ready to mix it, and therefore as good a hope as we have. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    NEW The music is straight and soothing, a band coming together in a rootsy salve as Williams returns to a favourite theme, deliverance through music. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Record Collector

    NEW World’s Gone Wrong may well turn out to be a landmark release in Lucinda Williams’ career. But it’s not only its uncompromising lyrical message but its musical direction that raises questions. You can’t recapture lightning in a bottle, and it may be that her future lies in a less quirky, more strident genre than previously. And that’s a choice she has earned the right to make
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    NEW Energised, focused, enraged yet also fully infused with the warmth of compassion and a wary hope for better things to come
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  5. 7.5 |   Paste Magazine

    NEW The alt-country legend doesn’t offer a survival guide or false hope, but she does offer solidarity—and a commitment to fight
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