Earlier this yr, Ethel Cain dipped into ambient, slowcore, and drone on her 90-minute venture Perverts. Now she’s gearing as much as launch Willoughby Tucker, I’ll All the time Love You, her second album and a prequel to 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter, in August.
At house with penning epics, Cain has stated that Preacher’s Daughter was solely the primary of a trilogy about three generations of a household, spinning a cautionary story in regards to the incapacity to interrupt cycles and letting issues spiral to “nearly a ruinous level.” “A typical theme that I like to put in writing about is intergenerational trauma,” she defined in 2022. “Issues which were handed down by way of generations and the way your dad and mom’ or your grandparents’ actions can have an effect on you. It’s very a lot about this lineage of girls and the way all their lives interconnect. Every album focuses on a special lady. I wish to discover how your actions have an effect on others — and the connection between a mom and her baby and the way issues come full circle.”
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Cain additionally unveiled an enormous tour to help the album, which begins in North America all through August and September. Then she’ll leap over to Europe and the U.Ok. in October and November. She will probably be joined by Toronto shoegaze outfit 9million, fronted by her longtime collaborator Matthew Tomasi.
Preacher’s Daughter is out there on vinyl for the primary time on April 4, which you’ll preorder within the AP Store. Within the meantime, try the art work and 2025 tour dates under.
