Through the Madness, Vol. 1 is an EP by Nashville country duo Maddie & Tae, released January 28, 2022, by UMG Recordings. The country pop release is the first half of an upcoming full album, with the latter half set to be released on September 23.
Singles and music video The EP was preceded by the singles "Woman You Got", released March 31, 2021, "Madness", released October 29, 2021, (from which the EP's name was derived) and "Strangers", released on January 7, 2022. "Woman You Got" also got a music video released on June 30, 2021, which starred the duo and featured scenes referencing the films Clueless and Risky Business, and guest appearances by their husbands, Jonah Font and Josh Kerr.
Commercial performance The EP peaked at 46 on Billboards Top Current Album Sales chart, and 79 on the Top Album Sales chart.
Reception
Hollers Will Groff wrote that the duo are "arguably playing it safe", but even then, "make for a captivating pair" with "nuances to certain songs that reward paying full attention", but that "one only wishes there were more of them."
Track listing
Personnel Musicians Maddie & Tae Maddie Font – vocals Taylor Kerr – vocals
Additional musicians Kris Donegan – electric guitar David Dorn – keyboards Evan Hutchings – drums Josh Kerr – electric guitar, acoustic guitar (7), programming (7) Tony Lucido – bass guitar Lori McKenna – vocals (6) Justin Schipper – steel guitar (2, 6) Morgane Stapleton – vocals (3) Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 4–6, 8) Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar (3, 7) Derek Wells – electric guitar
Production Adam Ayan – mastering engineer (3, 4, 6–8) Sean Badum – assistant recording engineer (5) Dave Clauss – recording engineer, mixing engineer Joel McKenney – assistant recording engineer (2) Jimmy Robbins – recording engineer Derek Wells – recording engineer Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator
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