Michelle Mercado
Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Faye Webster has shared "But Not Kiss," her first new music in two years. The song, a swooning ballad that explodes into moments of outsized emotion, tackles the subject of a love that is just out of reach. "I want to see you in my dreams but then forget. We’re meant to be but not yet," she sings over a melancholy backdrop.
"I think it could be a really romantic song or a really anti-romantic song," Webster says in a statement shared with press. "It’s something I’ve looked for but struggled to find in other love songs, for them to describe this conflict or contradiction."
Webster will launch the single at an event at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles tonight (June 20). She will also perform at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA on June 22. A full-scale headline tour of North America then takes place in October and November. The freshly announced dates begin in Washington D.C. on October 17 and wrap up in Atlanta the following month with shows in New York and Los Angeles along the way.
I Know I’m Funny haha, Webster's most recent studio album, was released in 2021. A year later she released Car Therapy Sessions, an EP made up of orchestral reimaginings of some previously released material.
Faye Webster tour dates
October 17 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
October 20 - Boston, MA - Roadrunner
October 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall
October 24 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
October 27 - Toronto, ON - History
October 29 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
October 30 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
November 2 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
November 3 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
November 4 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
November 7 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
November 8 - Los Angeles, CA - The Novo
November 10 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
November 12 - Dallas, TX - The Factory in Deep Ellum
November 13 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
November 14 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater
November 17 - Atlanta, GA - The Eastern
