Nashville singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with her new album. Fatal Optimist an introspective album that is her most stripped down, acoustic record to date.

The Nashville-based singer and songwriter discusses the stripped-down breakup songs of her new album, 'Fatal Optimist.' ...

Diaz points to a couple of touchstones for her LP's bare-bones approach, among them Patty Griffin's "Living With Ghosts" — "a star in Orion's Belt," as she puts it — and "obviously Joni Mitchell's ...

When Madi Diaz received her first Grammy nominations last year – for her sixth album, Weird Faith (best folk album), and its Kacey Musgraves collaboration, “Don’t Do Me Good” (best American ...

Hannah Frances “belongs in a wise old souls hall of fame,” said Chris DeVille in Stereogum. Like Sharon Van Etten or Joni ...

Diaz, a songwriter’s songwriter who has spent time in Harry Styles’ backing band, began working on Fatal Optimist after a post-breakup seclusion on an island, where she immersed herself in writing ...