FILTE R ALBUMS
No tux given
Atlantan polymath conducts herself to highest standards through fifth album.
By Victoria Segal.
Faye Webster: letting painful truths filter through the dark spaces.
Faye Webster
★★★★
Underdressed At The Symphony
SECRETLY CANADIAN. CD/DL/LP
LOOK BACK over Faye Webster’s career and you might suspect that she’s been stor yboarded by the makers of a ’70s kids’ animation about an intrepid, sweet-voiced singer-songwriter. She’s a yo-yo champion, a photographer, a baseball fan; she loves computer games and turns her hand to synchronised swimming and Hawaiian dancing in her videos. Her songs have gone viral on TikTok, but she’s also rooted in Atlanta’s hip-hop and alt-countr y scenes. Add in a cameo for Barack Obama, who chose Webster’s Better Distractions as one of his 2020 favourites, and Hanna-Barbera have a next-gen hit on their hands.