Premature Evaluation: Faye Webster Underdressed At The Symphony

The title Underdressed At The Symphony encapsulates the appeal of Faye Webster. She’s cool and classy enough to attend such an event, but winds up sticking out like a sore thumb in the audience, not really belonging to the older, sophisticated demographic. Her songs are beautiful sprawls that masterfully meld together indie pop, country twang, and R&B, yet they’re full of endearing, playful asides that betray her age, like on 2019’s “Kingston” when she sings, “He said, ‘Baby’ — that’s what he called me — ‘I love you.’” On her last album, 2021’s I Know I’m Funny haha, she intones about her partner’s sister, “She said I’m funny and then I thanked her/ But I know I’m funny haha.”