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FAYE WEBSTER
announces new album
UNDERDRESSED AT THE SYMPHONY
Out MARCH 1 on
SECRETLY CANADIAN

+ New single
‘LEGO RING’ ft. LIL YACHTY
out now

+ AUSTRALIAN TOUR
commences next month including
appearances at
LANEWAY FESTIVAL

Listen here

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Ahead of her upcoming Australian headline tour dates and appearances at Laneway Festival alongside artists including Steve Lacy, Stormzy and Dominic Fike, Faye Webster has announced that her new album, Underdressed at the Symphony, will be released on March 1st via Secretly Canadian.

Today, she shares the new single ‘Lego Ring‘ ft. Lil Yachty the new single 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 HERE. Underdressed at the Symphony is available for pre-order beginning today.

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Late last year, Faye Webster released two of the album singles, teasing the forthcoming project.  ‘But Not Kiss‘ was a tension-filled first peak 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 fall, 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.

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A self-taught guitarist by elementary school, with a long tradition of bluegrass and country players in her family, Webster was bound to be a musician. At just 16 she released her debut album, Run & Tell. Like other teenage phenoms Jackson Browne and Laura Marling, it exhibited stunning lyrical and artistic clarity. Her Southern roots were obvious but Webster had more than country music inspiring her worldview – she was deeply embedded in the culture of her hometown, Atlanta. Lil Yachty was her classmate, she was sneaking out to see underground shows and fortuitously had befriended rapper/producer Ethereal while in High School. She went on to sign to Awful Records, making her label-mates with Father, Playboi Carti and Ethereal. To the outsider, an odd home but Webster shared the same weirdo art-kid ethos of her label mates – impossible to peg, endlessly experimenting, making shit, doing stuff, genre-fluid rule breakers.

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Her 2017 self-titled release on Awful brought her enough notoriety to get her signed to Secretly Canadian, the home of ANOHNI, Porridge Radio, Whitney, Yoko Ono and more. Two years later, she released Atlanta Millionaires Club to widespread critical acclaim. “Few R&B albums have a pedal steel; few alt-country albums have a rap feature. Faye Webster’s Atlanta Millionaires Club somehow has all of the above. Even stranger, she manages to smooth these apparent contradictions into serene folk-pop with a mellow soul tinge. Webster is an anomaly, but her arty individualism represents an important common value,” said Pitchfork.

A multi-hyphenate talent, Webster also is a successful photographer who has shot campaigns for Killer Mike, Offset, D.R.A.M, Nike and other brands. She is a sometimes model and full-time yoyo enthusiast. Of her last album, I Know I’m Funny haha, Pitchfork said, “Webster is an assassin who comes out of the shadows with something witheringly funny or totally devastating.” It’s these flourishes of her unmatched individualism that make her so exciting to listen to, and with Underdressed at the Symphony, Faye Webster enters a thrilling next chapter.

Underdressed at the Symphony will be available on CD, cassette, black vinyl and “Faye Blue” vinyl where records are sold. A limited edition Blue & White Bullseye vinyl will be available via www.fayewebster.com

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‘LEGO RING’ FT. LIL YACHTY OUT NOW VIA SECRETLY CANADIAN
BUY/STREAM HERE

UNDERDRESSED AT THE SYMPHONY
OUT MARCH 1
PRE-SAVE HERE

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UNDERDRESSED AT THE SYMPHONY
Track Listing

Thinking About You
But Not Kiss
Wanna Quit All the Time
Lego Ring (ft. Lil Yachty)
Feeling Good Today
Lifetime
He Loves Me Yeah!
ebay Purchase History
Underdressed at the Symphony
Tttttime

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2024 AU/NZ Tour Dates

31 January – The Croxton, Melbourne – SOLD OUT
01 February – Metro Theatre, Sydney – SOLD OUT
03 February – Laneway Festival, Brisbane, Brisbane Showgrounds
04 February – Laneway Festival, Sydney, Sydney Showgrounds
06 February – Laneway Festival, Auckland, Western Springs Stadium
09 February – Laneway Festival, Adelaide, Bonython Park
10 February – Laneway Festival, Melbourne, Flemington Showgrounds
11 February – Laneway Festival, Perth, Wellington Square

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Follow FAYE WEBSTER
Website – Instagram – Youtube – Twitter

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AMNPLIFY – ML