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FAYE WEBSTER
shares title track from new album
‘I KNOW I’M FUNNY HAHA’

out June 25 Via Secretly Canadian

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Image Credit: Pooneh Ghana

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Praise for FAYE WEBSTER

“Faye Webster’s particular strain of sad-girl loneliness hits a little differently in the pandemic era” – PITCHFORK

“Webster breaks musical barriers in such a way that musicians rarely do these days” – ROLLING STONE

“‘Cheers’ suggests there’s a lot of Faye Webster we have yet to see.” -THE FADER

“Webster’s songwriting and voice are both so exquisite, comfortably settling into the space between the worlds of twangy Americana and safe adult contemporary. She takes the best parts of these styles and delivers something even greater than the sum of its parts.” – ABC ONLINE

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Today, Faye Webster shares the video for ‘I Know I’m Funny haha’. It is the title track and fourth single (following ‘Cheers’, ‘Better Distractions’ & ‘In A Good Way’) from her eagerly anticipated new album, out June 25 on Secretly Canadian. The video for ‘I Know I’m Funny, haha’ was co-directed by Webster and her partner Booth.

 Webster describes the song and it’s inspiration, “It went from being a thought, to a lyric, to a song title, to an album title. These are the thoughts that go through my head when writing a song – things that people might easily overlook and don’t think are worthy or pretty enough to be sung. I think that’s what people relate to it the most, and I think it’s an aspect of song-writing that you don’t get to hear often. This song feels all over the place but at the same time it tells a story so simple and understandable. Me not getting my security deposit back from my landlord, my partner’s family forgetting who I am because they were drunk, wanting to be in a rock band with Booth…. it almost sounds like a mad lib at first sight, but it just works”

In the time since Atlanta Millionaire Club release, while Webster’s profile has steadily risen –  she also fell in love. “This record is coming from a less lonely place,”Webster says of I Know I’m Funny haha, which finds her sound fuller, brighter, and more confident. “When I wrote AMC, I was living by myself and on some don’t-know-what-to-do-with-my-own-time type shit. But now I’m living with my partner; I’m happy most of the time. I’m in such a different place. These songs aren’t necessarily happier, but it’s a different vibe.”

The follow up to her 2019 breakthrough and Secretly Canadian debut Atlanta Millionaires Club,  I Know I’m Funny haha is Webster’s most realised manifestation yet of her emotional and musical alchemy. Her poised and plainspoken music channels emotions that are so aching, they seem to be coming into existence at that very moment. And her unique sound draws as much from the lap-steel singer-songwriter pop of the 1970s and teardrop country tunes as it does from the audacious personalities of her city’s rap and R&B community, where she initially  found a home on Awful Records.

Webster started recording I Know I’m Funny haha before the coronavirus pandemic, but with the 2020 shutdowns, she had to switch up her typically spontaneous song-by-song studio approach for most of the album. She tried recording with her band for a COVID-safe two-week studio stretch, but ultimately left, recording vocals at home on Garageband: “I did the rest of the vocals in my bedroom, which is what I’ve done and what I’m used to, and what I prefer,” she says of her intimate singing style. And the uncertainty of life in 2020 also seeped into some of her lyrics, as on the gorgeous ‘Better Distractions’ (which landed on Barack Obama’s 2020 year end playlist), a song about missing a loved one and wondering “What’s next?”

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The brilliantly colloquial title of the album is an indication of the humor and personality that shines through Webster’s music (This is also the case with her work as an accomplished photographer of portraits who has shot Killer Mike, Offset and D.R.A.M among others.) Many of her songs contain bits of girl-group-esque talk-singing, which colour her atypical story-songs. “One of my favorite things about songwriting is taking thoughts that people don’t really think are worthy, or might overlook, and highlighting them,” Webster says. (She also comes alive when describing hobbies like chess and yo-yoing.) “I like saying things that everybody thinks, but nobody’s saying. Sometimes you can’t really sing them, or make them pretty. So I’ll just say it, just talk. I’ve become more purposeful with it.”

Accepting the challenges, Webster says she’s in a growth mindset, pushing herself to learn more, to be more vulnerable. “Growth is really important to me,” she says. “I hope people will relate to my songs, and not just be like ‘this is a good record’ but ‘this makes me feel something. This is making me think differently, this is making me question things.’ I told myself a few years ago that I was going to be more honest in my songwriting, that honesty is the best route to take with music. If I have a voice and people are listening to me, I’m not going to waste it.”

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‘I KNOW I’M FUNNY, HAHA’
is out now HERE 

Pre-order
‘I KNOW I’M FUNNY HAHA’ HERE

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FAYE WEBSTER 
‘I KNOW I’M FUNNY HAHA’ is out June 25

‘I Know I’m Funny haha’
Tracklisting 

1. Better Distractions
2. Sometimes
3. I Know I’m Funny Haha
4. In A Good Way
5. Kind Of
6. Cheers
7. Both All The Time
8. A Stranger
9. A Dream With A Baseball Player
10. Overslept (ft. mei ehara)
11. Half Of Me

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