Madi Diaz - Weird Faith - Import CD

Credits:

Madi Diaz

Description:

Madi Diaz is no stranger to exploring the personal in her songwriting, and the act of processing emotions has always taken a lead role on her albums. Recorded with Andrew Sarlo, her fifth full-length, 2021s History of a Feeling, offered her rawest material yet, leading to television debuts and high-profile tours with artists including Harry Styles and Angel Olsen. On the follow-up, Weird Faith, Diaz not only continues to stare down complex feelings but shines a blue light on the dark underbelly of love, where the flaws, compromises, and insecurities lie. Recorded this time with Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby, Emily King) and Konrad Snyder (Noah Kahan, Stephen Sanchez), the album opens with the blunt and melancholy "Same Risk," in which she questions whether a new partner will carry their weight with lines like, "Do you think this could ruin your life?/Cause I could see it ruining mine." That song also features a big, cellphone-flashlight-waving, sing-along chorus, something Diaz delivers many over on Weird Faith. Among the many earnest earworms here (the cringier "KFM" notwithstanding) are songs like "God Person" ("Im not a god person/But Im never not searchin") and "Dont Do Me Good," an early single featuring her friend Kacey Musgraves. Mournful but defiant, the latter song makes catchy country-rock of tough sentiments like "Every time I wake up crying/I’m denying what I should/I know loving you/It don’t do me good." Consisting mostly of similarly midtempo ballads and relationship obits, quasi-outliers include the spare, tender title track, in which she decides to try to stay ("I’m gonna have a heart of gold/And I’m gonna have weird faith") and a pair of relative rockers in "Everything Almost" and the cathartic closer, "Obsessive Thoughts," which would have made a fitting album title. ~ Marcy Donelson

Tracklisting:

1.Same Risk
2.Everything Almost
3.Girlfriend
4.Hurting You
5.Get to Know Me
6.God Person
7.Kiss the Wall
8.Don’t Do Me Good
9.For Months Now
10.KFM
11.Weird Faith
12.Obsessive Thoughts