Faye Webster – Underdressed At The Symphony [CD]

Faye Websters songs are direct lines to the human subconscious, and Underdressed at the Symphony documents what happens once you begin to build a new self from the ashes of your old routines. This rebirth isnt flashy or definitive, but is instead a series of seemingly mundane moments that, scattered across weeks and months, sneak their way toward something like healing. Yes, theres a breakup in play, but Webster is not documenting the heartbreak of a breakup so much as shes navigating the contours of heartbreak itself.

Recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in Texas with her longtime band, Webster is accompanied on Underdressed at the Symphony by Matt Stoessels arcs of shimmering pedal steel, the plaintive, unhurried drums of Charles Garner, and, occasionally, additional guitarwork from Wilcos Nels Cline, among many other crucial players. The title of the album refers to Websters post-breakup compulsion to visit the symphony on a