Into The Music
Faye Webster has spent the better part of a decade building one of the quieter cult followings in American indie music, and she has done it almost entirely by refusing to make a bid for anyone’s attention. The Atlanta-born singer and guitarist makes music that sounds like it is not trying to reach you. It reaches you anyway.
Webster started releasing music as a teenager, drifting through country-adjacent territory before landing on the warm, slightly melancholy sound that defined her 2019 album Atlanta Millionaires Club. That record sounded like it was recorded in a living room you wanted to stay in forever. She refined the approach on I Know I’m Funny haha in 2021, which became the moment a lot of people caught up to what her longtime listeners already knew.
What makes her work distinctive is the combination of steel guitar and the unhurried tempo she insists on in almost every song. Nothing rushes. The production is lush but never cluttered. She writes about romantic ambivalence and mild domestic dissatisfaction with a specificity that makes even low-stakes observations feel important. Live, she has a way of making a quiet seated set feel like the most important thing in the room.
The indie world has a lot of artists who sound like each other. Webster sounds like herself, and that is rarer than it should be.