It was only last year that Faye Webster shared her album I Know I'm Funny haha, one of our favorites of 2021. But the witty musician is already back with another project that includes new music and also revised versions of some of the songs she shared last year. It's a five-track EP titled Car Therapy Sessions with Webster singing alongside a full orchestra conducted and arranged by Trey Pollard. The orchestral arrangement on "Car Therapy"—the title track she's sharing today along with a Sean Valdivieso–directed video—takes Webster's vocals and candid songwriting six feet off the ground. "Hold my body / And I'll forget I hate me," she sings as strings and woodwind instruments flutter around her.
Although the release includes this new track, the idea for Car Therapy Sessions spawned from imagining older tracks with more delicate arrangements. “I have a vivid memory of walking around London in 2018 listening to a mix of 'Jonny,' which I had just written," she explained. "I remember thinking, 'I want to perform this song with an orchestra.' I truly have had my heart set on it since then, always talking about it and figuring out how or when to make it happen... The recording experience was beautiful, I was truly fighting tears. I think I had actually even cried listening to the demos. I was put in a position where I could see the conductor as well as the producer, which I needed because I honestly couldn't pick up on my cues sometimes even though I wrote the songs. I was so distracted in how beautiful the orchestra sounded I would forget to sing sometimes.”
Watch the video for "Car Therapy" below, and pre-order the EP here.
