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Faye Webster
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Mar 1, 2024
- Summary: The fifth full-length release from Atlanta singer-songwriter Faye Webster was recorded in Texas with contributions from Lil Yachty and Wilco's Nels Cline.
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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 16 out of 16
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Mar 6, 2024Webster’s commitment to alt-R&B-style repose, along with some keen sonic quirks, are just a couple of the ways the 26-year-old Atlantan contrasts the ’70s-era singer-songwriters she’s so often compared to. Still, the sheer musicality of what she does deserves boomers’ approval.
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Feb 28, 2024Amidst the unexpected twists in its production, Webster still retains a strong narrative voice throughout, her intentions unfolding with each new line.
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Feb 28, 2024The mess is the whole point. It's a fascinating place to be, largely because she finds so much meaning in everyday observations and mundane ironies, in the small moments many other songwriters might overlook. [Mar 2024, p.30]
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Mar 1, 2024The more that you listen to this album, the more affecting it becomes.
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Mar 4, 2024The appeal in this refurbished soft rock lies in the atmosphere and supple interplay, how the musicians twist melodic clichés without refuting their power, an execution that mirrors how Webster writes songs that feel slightly off-center: she delivers subtle surprises without neglecting basic pop pleasures.
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Mar 5, 2024Ultimately, Underdressed at the Symphony’s greatest achievement is the balance it strikes between opposing elements: the familiar and the novel, humor and heartache, dreams and reality. While Webster maintains her stylistic singularity, she doesn’t sit in it; instead, she expands beyond it, keeping it in tow as she explores different sounds and sentiments.
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Mar 5, 2024While it does see Faye and her band at their most musically warm and open - nearly every track is a devastating beauty - lyrically she feels more closed off than ever before.