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Madi Diaz Announces Weird Faith (Deluxe Edition), Out October 25th via ANTI-
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024

Madi Diaz Announces Weird Faith (Deluxe Edition), Out October 25th via ANTI-

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. 

“This deluxe edition is an ode to the era of Weird Faith. Some of the demos capture the magic of the moment they were written that will never happen quite the same way ever again. It feels so important to honor those moments.” Diaz explains. “There’s a rawness to the energy the second a song is finished and sung. I try to touch that feeling every time I perform — the feeling that there is still something new here, a lesson or 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, thinking if can get ahead of it all by thinking of the worst and how I’d survive it, then maybe 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” VideoDirected by Joey Brodnax  

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).  

Diaz hits the road next month supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise on a run of West Coast dates. Tickets can be purchased here

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