Album of the week: May 31 – Atlanta Millionaires Club

May 31st 2019

21-year-old Georgia native Faye Webster has offered her strongest effort to date with her serene third album, Atlanta Millionaires Club. Retaining the luscious, country-tinged instrumentals of her previous records, Webster broadens her idiosyncratic songwriting on Atlanta Millionaires Club by injecting new pepperings of jazz and hip hop. The curious genre blend marries her sleepy, intimate balladry with the rich musical history of her home city. Backed by lazy pedal steel, twangy guitars and soulful horns, Webster’s dreamy and transportative compositions evoke both Kacey Musgraves and Aaliyah in equal measures, touching on themes of romantic escape and heartsick desperation with her own witty lyricism and self-deprecating persona. Atlanta Millionaires Club is a generous yet understated record that downplays its true weirdness, while flickers of Webster’s burgeoning brilliance shine through the contradictions and odd beauty of her small, quirky masterpiece.


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