release date: Jun. 25, 2021
format: digital (11 x File, FLAC)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,72]
producer: Drew Vandenberg, Faye Webster
label: Secretly Canadian - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "Better Distractions" - 3. "I Know I'm Funny haha" - 4. "In a Good Way" - 5. "Kind Of" - 6. "Cheers" - 9. "A Dream With a Baseball Player" - 10. "Overslept" (feat. Mei Ehara)
4th studio album from Faye Webster released two years after what is conceived as her breakthrough album Atlanta Millionaires Club. An unforseen aid has nursed the new album to international attention when ex-president Barrack Obama's Spotify playlist revealed it included the song "Better Distractions".
Webster continue on the same path of alt. country, indie folk mixed with elements from r&b and hip hop. At times it comes close to lounge and jazz pop, and then it also reach out to a stronger hip hop-influence but it mainly stays on a narrow stylistic space filled with lap steel, bass and jazz percussion together with Webster's gentle melancholia keeping everything on the same road. Compared to her 2019 album, the new album comes out as lesser challenging but also as a tighter release.
The album has been met by positive reviews and it has landed two US Billboard top 10 positions with a position as number #10 on the Americana / Folk chart list and a 9th spot on the Heatseekers Album list, and the album also ended as number #11 on Pitchfork's 2021 year-end-list.
Webster is definitely an artist to look out for, and with I Know I'm Funny haha, she has made her most coherent and so far most fascinating album.
Recommended.
[ 😶allmusic.com 3 / 5, 👍Under the Radar 7,5 / 10, NME 4 / 5, Pitchfork 8,4 / 10, Uncut 4,5 / 5 stars ]
