Madi Diaz released Weird Faith earlier this year, revealing she’s at “the height of her powers” (NPR Music) as a musician, performer and songwriter, and today announces the album’s deluxe edition, out October 25th via ANTI-. The deluxe edition expands upon the original album’s “crystal-clear, diamond-sharp writing” (Pitchfork) from “one of our most important songwriters” (Paste), featuring demos from the Weird Faith recording sessions, plus three new songs: today’s new single, ‘Worst Case Scenario,’ a new version of ‘For Months Now’ featuring Lizzy McAlpine, and the previously released collaboration with Lennon Stella, ‘One Less Question,’ which they debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this year.
“The songs and demos on this deluxe edition are an ode to the era of Weird Faith. Some of these demos capture the magic the moment they were written that will never happen quite the same way ever again, and I feel like it’s so important to honor those moments.” Diaz explains. “There’s a rawness to the energy the second a song is finished and sung. It’s a feeling that I try to touch every time I play a show or perform, that there is still something new here, a lesson, an unlocking. I hope these demos show what these songs unlocked for me, and maybe they might unlock something in you too.”
‘Worst Case Scenario’ is a gritty indie-folk track that keeps the emphasis on Diaz’s emphatic delivery and words. Of the lyrics, she says: “Sometimes when I’m afraid, I test out a theory I’ve made up in the last few years: Life has never completely gone the way I imagined it would go (for better or worse). From time to time, I find myself daydreaming up scenes and playing them out in my mind, like a checklist, thinking I can get ahead of it all by thinking of the worst and how I’d survive it. Maybe then it won’t actually happen. This song was my prevention plan against what I imagined would be the worst possibilities playing out.”
Watch ‘Worst Case Scenario’ Video – Directed by Joey Brodnax
Praise for Madi Diaz’s Weird Faith:
“Madi Diaz is barreling toward stardom.” — Billboard
“Diaz is an excellent songwriter; her pop-folk earworms are honest and searching, giving them an earned emotional impact.” — Stereogum
“Throughout the gorgeous 12-song cycle, Diaz just pours her heart out with elegance and beauty. This is a quintessential singer/songwriter album.” — Forbes
“[Weird Faith] demonstrates [Diaz’s] sheer talent for writing raw, stripped-back, heart-wrenching songs that are the antithesis to modern pop music, yet which still somehow contain all of its hallmarks.” — FLOOD, The Best Albums of 2024 (So Far)
“What starts with modest acoustic guitar strumming rises with an orchestral crescendo to match the urgency of her questions.” — New York Times on ‘Same Risk’
“[Madi and Kacey’s] voices beautifully intertwine and give what could be a solely devastating track a hint of an uplifting tone.” — PEOPLE on ‘Don’t Do Me Good’
“Weird Faith seems poised to cement Diaz’s place in the musical landscape of Americana.” — them.
“[Diaz’s] specialty as a songwriter is creating intimate moments of a grand scale through her cathartic, sing-along hooks. The songs would sound just as at home in a sold-out arena as they would alone in the car on a late-night drive.” — Nashville Scene
“Madi Diaz is brazen, bold, unfiltered.” — The Tennessean
“[Madi Diaz] blends striking vulnerability with raw hopefulness on Weird Faith.” — Garden & Gun
“[Weird Faith] feels like…a level up in every regard.” — Paste
“[Weird Faith] is a fraught meditation on love and unhealthy cycles, filled with bare-bone confessionals that find her circling her own neurotic habits, toxic thought patterns, and an ever-hopeful desire to be better.” — NYLON
While writing Weird Faith, Diaz came up against a problem: how do you write about romance, or love, without making it sentimental, schlocky, or fake? For Diaz, the answer was to explore how anxiety-inducing, if not downright humiliating falling in love can be. Weird Faith answers these questions bluntly, and Diaz says the record “chronicles a new relationship, but also a new relationship to myself.” The result is a record that renders itself as a self-portrait capturing the Madi Diaz of a fleeting moment in time, hungrily alive and forever searching. Weird Faith highlights the human experience of spinning out on the fall into love, bold in its honesty, and aligned with the momentum of Madi Diaz.
Weird Faith was produced by Diaz (vocals, guitar, bass, piano, organ) alongside Sam Cohen (bass) and Konrad Snyder (percussion).
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Weird Faith (Digital Deluxe) Tracklist:
- Same Risk
- Everything Almost
- Girlfriend
- Hurting You
- Get To Know Me
- Kiss The Wall
- God Person
- Don’t Do Me Good (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
- For Months Now
- KFM
- Weird Faith
- Obsessive Thoughts
- Worst Case Scenario
- For Months Now (III) (feat. Lizzy McAlpine)
- One Less Question (feat. Lennon Stella)
- Human Condition (demo)
- Don’t Do Me Good (demo)
- Get To Know Me (demo)
- Same Risk (demo)
- Weird Faith (demo)
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