Faye Webster has announced that her new album, ‘Underdressed at the Symphony’, will be released on March 1st via Secretly Canadian. The album was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in Texas with her longtime band.
She also shares her new single “Lego Ring (ft. Lil Yachty)”. The new song comes with a music video featuring both Faye and Yachty playing a video game, created by the video’s director Kyle Ng of Braindead Studios, that fans can play along with HERE.
Fans can stream “Lego Ring (feat. Lil Yachty)” here: fayewebster.lnk.to/lego-ring and pre-order the album ‘Underdressed at the Symphony’ here: fayewebster.lnk.to/underdressed-at-the-symphony
Late last year, Faye Webster released two of the album singles, teasing the forthcoming project. “But Not Kiss” was a tension-filled first peek at the record. “It’s damn near ecstatic in ambiguity, but it’s not a song about indecision. Webster knows exactly what she wants, and what she doesn’t want; it just so happens that in doing so she ends up in yet another liminal space,” said The Fader.
She followed it up with the meditative “Lifetime”. Both songs explore the rarely mapped territory of emotional intimacy, where desire and passion are in conflict with comfort, understanding and even platonic love.
These themes are found throughout ‘Underdressed at the Symphony’, alongside hyper-specific imagery that paints a picture of Webster’s life, like her eBay Purchase history (“eBay Purchase History”) or the physical objects she covets (“Lego Ring”).
All of these uniquely Faye thoughts are wrapped in the warm glow of her otherworldly vocals, ever-present pedal steel and her cinematic and sweeping string arrangements but also more unpredictable elements like vocoder can be found on the new album.
“Her music defies genre and convention,” said Vulture last year. “Over the course of four albums, her sound has come to contain both pedal steel and indie rock as well as soft vocals and R&B sensibilities, all the while embodying the city of Atlanta.”
Since the release of her last full-length, Faye Webster has experienced a phenomenal surge in audience brought on by TikTok and the viral popularity of her songs “Kingston” and “I Know You”. Her fan’s profound connection to her music feels all the more genuine given Faye herself is not on the platform. In the last year, her Spotify streams have increased 1100% and she experienced a nearly 3000% growth in her YouTube views.
Faye’s Spotify monthly listeners have ballooned to over 7 million and that success has spilled over into her touring business as well. Last year, she set out on a major US headlining tour with every single show selling out immediately and multiple nights being added in major markets. The energy around Webster is palpable – fans singing every word to every song and cell phones in the air, documenting every moment of her shows.
