Faye Webster - Car Therapy Sessions [Walnut Brown Australia Import]

Faye Webster's Car Therapy Sessions dresses her hushed, heart-on-sleeve songs in full orchestral finery, pressed on walnut brown vinyl as an Australian import.

The Atlanta singer-songwriter released this five-track EP in 2022, between I Know I'm Funny haha and Underdressed at the Symphony. It revisits songs from her two previous albums alongside one new composition, with lush orchestral backing arranged by Trey Pollard, and the effect is like hearing old friends turn up in their best clothes for a night out.

The title track, the one new song here, unfolds like a late-night drive with the radio turned low. "Kind Of (Type of Way)" swells with strings that make her understated delivery feel even more intimate, "Suite: Jonny" stretches a fan favourite into something cinematic, and "Cheers (To You & Me)" closes things on a knowing, bittersweet note. Nothing feels overdressed; the strings simply follow her lead.

Webster's gift has always been making small feelings sound enormous, and these arrangements simply give those feelings more room to breathe, without smoothing away the deadpan charm that makes her songs so disarming.

For anyone who fell for her pedal steel and dry wit, this is a gorgeous detour worth sitting with, ideally somewhere quiet, maybe even a parked car.