Madi Diaz's Weird Faith felt like a true arrival. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter has now announced a deluxe edition of the album, featuring collaborations with Lizzy McAlpine and Lennon Stella.
Weird Faith (Deluxe Edition) will be released on October 25 via ANTI-, and sees the original record expanded to include five demos, a version of "For Months Now" with McAlpine, Diaz and Stella's recent single "One Less Question," and previously unreleased track "Worst Case Scenario,"
"This deluxe edition is an ode to the era of Weird Faith," Diaz said in a release. "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 honour those moments. 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."
Of steely new folk-pop number "Worst Case Scenario," she added, "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."
Check out "Worst Case Scenario" and the deluxe tracklist below, and read Exclaim!'s interview with Diaz from earlier this year.
Weird Faith (Deluxe Edition):
1. Same Risk
2. Everything Almost
3. Girlfriend
4. Hurting You
5. Get to Know Me
6. Kiss the Wall
7. God Person
8. Don't Do Me Good (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
9. For Months Now
10. KFM
11. Weird Faith
12. Obsessive Thoughts
13. Worst Case Scenario
14. For Months Now (III) (feat. Lizzy McAlpine)
15. One Less Question (feat. Lennon Stella)
16. Human Condition (demo)
17. Don't Do Me Good (demo)
18. Get to Know Me (demo)
19. Same Risk (demo)
20. Weird Faith (demo)