Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You (2025) • Page 7

Yeah I got emotional during the second half of that song, that's one I can't wait to spend some more time with.

 

Gonna be super busy training at work so I’m bummed I won’t get around to this today. Excited though!

 

Great album. It feels like if you took Preachers Daughter and Perverts and put them together inside of an old southern house from the 1900s. Tempest is the big highlight upon first listen, but there really isn't a bad track on here.

 

have avoided the singles and listening in full now. about halfway through and it's phenomenal. loved Perverts, I clearly should check out Preachers Daughter at some point lol

 

Since this is a prequel to that, it would make a good follow up listen lol.

 

Is Dust Bowl another song that was floating around previously, or maybe on her bandcamp or something? I love it.

 

Waco, Texas is incredible

 

There was a demo out.

 

this may be my AOTY so far, i'm just blown away rn

 

As soon as I put my kid to sleep in an hour I'm getting a whisky and sticking this on.

 

My early listens don't make me want to listen again.

Adore PD.

 

I thought I'd just whack this on while doing some chores this morning as I enjoyed Nettles and Fuck Me Eyes and thought I'd finally check out an Ethel Cain album for once.

I am bailing out here at track 4. There is no way I am continuing to listen to this album without giving it my full attention. These 4 tracks have been absolutely magical. There is so much passion pouring out of this.

I'm getting the big headphones and the booze out tonight and giving this the "first listen" it clearly deserves.

 

This is the way to do it. My first listen was at work yesterday morning when I suddenly became The Most Important Person In The Office and I was interrupted a million times. I should’ve just waited.

 

Tempest is amazing

 

I’m stuck on Waco, TX. It’s just that good.

 

First listen.... I'm slightly disappointed.

I love the aesthetic and vibe and have so much respect for her artistic vision and will definitely return to it over the coming days.

It may be that the darkness of PD left a stronger and more immediate impression on me but I found some of this to be middling in the way that PD prevented from happening in the longer tracks. Not applicable to Eyes, Tempest or Waco.

 

Tempest is like a slow, agonising and bleak yet euphoric ascent into heaven. Absolutely blown away

 

I think this album is pretty good. I haven’t really sat down to give it the proper listen it really deserves, so I suspect I’ll like it even more once I do. As it stands, this is the most I’ve enjoyed one of her albums.

Eighth grade death pact strike me dead

 

Really good on first listen, I imagine these songs mix with a full stage show/production is gonna go off really well, especially when I see her live for the 2nd in London in October!!

 

She’s teasing Australian dates!!!

 

Is it not?

 

You can praise Ethel's album without shitting on an unrelated genre a significant chunk of the userbase listens to. What makes hip-hop not actual music in your eyes?

 

It was more a statement about the publishing practices of Pitchfork than anything else

To me it lacks melody, sensitivity and humility as well as promoting hypersexualised behaviour (especially within young people)

Not sure why Hip Hop fans find the idea of people disliking the genre so offensive - I'm sure Country/Techno/Grindcore fans understand why their genres may be unpalatable to some

 

What publishing practices?