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Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

Ethel Cain

Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

Third album from the Florida-born dream pop artist Hayden Silas Anhedönia

ADM rating[?]

8.2

Label
Daughters of Cain
UK Release date
08/08/2025
US Release date
08/08/2025
  1. 10.0 |   DIY

    NEW One of the very best in storytelling and atmosphere
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  2. 10.0 |   NME

    NEW Hayden Anhedönia closes the ‘Ethel Cain’ chapter of her artistic journey with a bleak yet beautiful record
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  3. 10.0 |   Far Out

    NEW Poignant and powerful from start to finish, it can be no less than full marks for a work this thorough and this impactful
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  4. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    NEW Ethel Cain cements her place in the musical landscape as a genuinely exploratory, divergent, creative voice in the mainstream
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  5. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    NEW Ethel Cain’s debut was a feat of artistry. This is a feat of musicianship
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  6. 9.0 |   Clash

    NEW Ethel Cain is the most important artist in the world right now, and finally she has the album to prove it
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  7. 8.6 |   Beats Per Minute

    NEW While Preacher’s Daughter was all about dreams and desire, Willoughby is about the grit that exists outside of the individual perspective
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  8. 8.3 |   No Ripcord

    NEW Though it’s not as tightly edited as its predecessor, its beauty is found in its wistfulness, its lush and expansive sound design, and its winding structure. It’s full of fresh air and charm; Ethel Cain’s love is clearly in every breath
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  9. 8.0 |   Dork

    NEW All in all, and probably unsurprisingly, ‘Willoughby Tucker…’ is a triumph. Hayden is the Crown Princess of alt-pop, and this album underlines exactly why
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  10. 8.0 |   The Independent

    NEW The American singer-songwriter follows up her 2022 debut ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ with a concept album that’s often mesmerising
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  11. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    NEW These songsunfurl like hazy, sepia-tinged memories of endless summer afternoons
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  12. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    NEW On her latest album, Ethel Cain has once again translated incredibly personal experiences into deeply universal feelings
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  13. 8.0 |   Uncut

    NEW Anhedönia's gifts for storytelling - part Flannery O'Connor, part David Lynch - are compelling enough, but the music is equally stunning, a mix of shoegaze, gothic country and doom metal. Print edition only

  14. 6.7 |   Pitchfork

    NEW The prequel chapter of Hayden Anhedönia’s Southern gothic epic gravitates toward sludgy slowcore and dusty, sepia-toned folk. It can feel like an endurance exercise, or a test of faith
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  15. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    NEW The ambitious pop outlier's latest, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, is haunting but lacks the dynamism of her best work
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  16. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    NEW It’s the longest, most hypnotic tracks at the end where the album really takes off into sublimity
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