New/Sealed
POP
UPC: 5056167181446
Release Date: 8/8/2025
 
A prequel to the critically acclaimed Preacher's Daughter, the new album recounts the story of Ethel's first love, Willoughby Tucker, and their humid, laden romance. Hayden Anhedonia, the creative force behind the entire Ethel Cain project, has spent the past several years assembling the album in her home studios from Coraopolis, PA to Tallahassee, FL, all the while selling out tours and playing festivals worldwide, cementing herself as a singular artistic voice on the rise.

A quote from Hayden on the first single, "Nettles":
"This song and the last track on the record were both written the same week, the very first week I moved into the house in Alabama where I finished Preacher’s Daughter,” says Cain. “In similar fashion to Preacher’s Daughter (specifically ‘A House in Nebraska’ and ‘Strangers’), I wrote what essentially became the beginning and end of the story without realizing it. What were originally just little vignettes of emotion I was feeling at the time ultimately became the tent poles for a larger narrative. Nettles became a dream of losing the one you love, asking them to reassure you that it won’t come true and to dream, instead, of all the time you’ll have together as you grow old side by side. Every once in a blue moon, it feels good to slough off the macabre and to simply let love be.
 
Track     
 
Title
 
1
Janie
2
Willoughby’s Theme
3
Fuck Me Eyes
4
Nettles
5
Willoughby’s Interlude
6
Dust Bowl
7
A Knock At The Door
8
Radio Towers
9
Tempest
10
Waco, Texas