“Ethel Cain’s debut, 2022’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter’, remains one of the most obsessed-over albums of the decade, a series of southern-gothic murder ballads narrated by a woman already dead. While fans await the next chapter in Hayden Anhedönia’s Daughter of Cain saga, ‘Perverts’ is something else entirely. Alternately billed as a project and an (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) 89-minute EP, it contains lit”
“Ethel Cain goes from hell to heaven and back on Perverts”
“The EP ruminates on distorted desires, but it’s also an exploration of drone and noise, a treatise on what it’s like to watch and be watched, and an aural Rorschach test.”
“Darker and slower than ever, the singer-songwriter’s second LP blends claustrophobic ambient textures with chilly, half-obscured songs about powerlessness, guilt, and shame.”
“There was a moment when Hayden Anhedönia was poised to break big. Preacher's Daughter, her sprawling 2022 debut full-length as alter ego Ethel Cain, made waves with both critics and fans, many of whom would attend her concerts dressed just like her. On the cusp of mainstream indie fame, her next record would push her over the edge. But Perverts is not that record. If anything, it feels specifical”
“a gothic follow-up determined to stay underground”
