Faye Webster live at The Louisiana

Faye Webster

Faye
Webster isn’t afraid to tell you how she feels. Rooted in a familial
lineage of folk, 21-year-old songwriter Webster’s forthright, exposed
lyricism pays homage to the great Americana traditions of songwriting
while drawing from Webster’s own experiences immersed in Atlanta’s
hip-hop scene. Her carefully-cultivated sound organically mingles that
inherited country and folk with her time immersed in rap collective
Awful Records, injecting the traditional with a clandestine jolt.

A
decorated photographer as well as a musician, Webster’s artistic
mediums don’t intertwine, instead running parallel to one another. The
through-line is her exceptional knack for direction, an assured
confidence in her own point of view.

“Kingston,” the first new
song since her 2017’s sophomore self-titled LP, is quintessential Faye
Webster. Awash in the haze of a humid Georgia summer, all lovestruck
and dewy, “Kingston” glimmers with a hushed glitz: a mellowed
punctuation of brass, the twang of pedal-steel, feather-light vocals
unfurling like a sigh, and slinking hues of R&B.

In the accompanying self-directed video for “Kingston,” we move through a
blushing tangle of flamingos and lush palm trees, the sheen of red silk,
a glimmering ice-rink. At the center of it all stands Faye Webster, in
focus, gazing directly into the camera with a wide-eyed, unflinching
gaze: the sharp, confident conductor in control of a dreamy haze.

TUESDAY 15 JANUARY

THE LOUISIANA
Wapping Road, Bristol BS1 6UA
Doors 7.30pm
Ages 16+ (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)

Advance tickets available from:
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