Weird Faith

by Madi Diaz

Overview

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, 2021's 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 singalong chorus, something Diaz delivers many times over on Weird Faith. Among the many earnest earworms here (the cringier "KFM" notwithstanding) are songs like "God Person" ("I'm not a god person/But I'm never not searchin'") and "Don't 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

Product Details

Release Date:	02/09/2024
Label:	Anti-
UPC:	0045778799817
Rank:	15954

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Madi Diaz   Primary Artist