Faye Webster works best in grayscale. While her music is vibrant, the relationships and emotions that populate her songs are never clearly defined in black or white.
She’s penned paeans to hanging out with people you like but don’t like that much, and opened her breakout record running neither hot nor cold, but “Room Temperature.” Her fantastic new single “But Not Kiss is damn near ecstatic in that ambiguity, but it’s not a song about indecision.
Webster knows exactly what she wants, and what she doesn’t want; it just so happens that in doing so she ends up in yet another liminal space.
Between friends and lovers, or between lovers and something more. She cares for whoever she’s singing about, but not enough to ask how they’re doing.
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