Albums to watch

Preacher’s Daughter

Ethel Cain

Preacher’s Daughter

Full-length debut album from the Florida-born dream pop artist Hayden Silas Anhedönia

ADM rating[?]

8.2

Label
Daughters of Cain
UK Release date
13/05/2022
US Release date
13/05/2022
  1. 10.0 |   DIY

    Change, escape and identity are not easy things to navigate, and ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ is the dark, unsettling, sprawling beauty that comes out of it
    Read Review

  2. 10.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Every moment serves to enhance the conveying of the record’s story, and refuses to shy away from the unconventional, intense, or drawn out. I wish Preacher’s Daughter and its story didn’t have to exist, but I’m eternally grateful that it does
    Read Review

  3. 9.0 |   Clash

    A heart-wrenching collection of songs that urges the listener to give themselves over to this album as much as Ethel Cain gives herself over to you
    Read Review

  4. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    There's a substance and cohesion across Preacher's Daughter that's lacking on most debuts – and yet there's clearly so much more to come from this incredible artist and the rich world she's created
    Read Review

  5. 9.0 |   Crack

    This is an album that pairs cock-rock riffs and 80s snares with thundering sludge and drone instrumentals. One moment Anhedönia is belting out radio-friendly pop lyrics about crying under the bleachers, like a young Taylor Swift
    Read Review

  6. 9.0 |   Paste Magazine

    The artist’s debut LP interweaves powerful genre influences and haunting narratives, beginning to chart the Ethel Cain lore
    Read Review

  7. 9.0 |   Gigwise

    An American epic
    Read Review

  8. 8.8 |   Northern Transmissions

    Cain’s grasp on her production and unwavering knowledge of who she is an artist says that more stories are bound to come
    Read Review

  9. 8.0 |   Beats Per Minute

    With more questions raised than answered, Cain’s unusually ambitious and fully-realised debut somehow leaves listeners craving more in spite of its wonderful, exhausting, 75 minute runtime
    Read Review

  10. 6.4 |   Pitchfork

    On her debut album, the 24-year-old Tallahassee native briefly makes good on her instinct for mass-appeal pop anthems, but most of the 90-minute album dwells on roiling gloom and smoldering Americana
    Read Review

  11. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    The introspective singer explores identity and religion amid a backdrop of seedy Americana on this rich, haunting debut
    Read Review

  12. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Bedroom pop with its eye on bigger settings
    Read Review


blog comments powered by Disqus

Watch it

Roll over video for more options

Hear it

Latest Reviews

More reviews