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so beyond excited for willoughby tucker, iāll always love youā¦ iāve been awaiting this album for a very long time now and i am so excited to see what some of the old demos turn into on the record.
ethel cain released ānettlesā yesterday, and despite being a little underwhelmed when she first announced it (nettles wasnāt the unreleased track i was most excited for), i bawled my eyes out when i heard it for the first time.
i also realized that the album comes out on my boyfriendās birthday (i will not be normal about this), and for the very first time in our relationship, i will be with him on his birthday. i asked him if he wanted to listen to the record together on a little hike into the german wilderness (and maybe playing in a creek or river) and just enjoying each other and the album in late summerās natural beauty. he said he would love to!! i canāt wait to be rolling around in sunshine and dirt and kissing and loving my boy to the album :3
Jun 5, 2025
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pulldrone ambient is soooo in for 2025!! i didnāt expect this album to emotionally touch me as much as it did, but, especially the last three songs, i find myself coming back to. it feels like the sound of becoming and change somehow, although i donāt know what itās about. i think a lot of her stuff is quite self-determinable though, so im trying to find as much beauty in this one as possible..
Jan 15, 2025
It took a while for me to get back into her music, but after listening to Nettles, I decided to listen to Preacherās Daughter from start to finish and let me tell you. Strangers might be the best song Iāve listened to of all time, Iām used to pop, and mostly EDM songs but ever since Ethel Cain has pierced my ear drums with her lyricism, production, and life with her music. I sweat there was no turning back.
Strangers is truly the culmination of Ethelās life from start to finish and it really is the best way to close off the album. To those who have not yet listened to Preacherās Daughter or Ethel Cain in general, please do.
4d ago
craaaaaazy question to ask me specifically because now I will never shut the fuck up
I first came into contact with this album in 2022 or 2023 because its final and titular track was featured in the end credits of an episode of Girls. It immediately became one of my all-time favorites. Both gut-wrenching and hopeful, the song's narrator reminisces on a previous emotionally dark time for them, a time when they were grieving and trying to hold onto things they couldn't keep (underweight, in the street, hot with grief). The hope in this song, which takes the breath out of my lungs, lies in both the crucial past tense of these feelings and in the final lines, 'get well soon, get well soon / I was once just like you.' This has become a sort of mantra for me. Tucek takes something you would see on a kitschy greeting card and turns it into a plea for recovery.
Unfortunately, it took me months to sit down and actually listen to the full album in late winter 2024. It happened very much by accident. I was itching to hear something new and thought, well, at some point I should check out the rest of this artist's work, considering this is one of my top 5 favorite songs of all time. I never expected it to be such a work. I figured someone else would've sang its praises by now if it was going to change my life (which is why I adore this ask, because I think we all have an album like this, or at least we all should). The albums contains stories of grief, regret, dissatisfaction, bad fathers, and ultimately Moving On with a capital M. The track order is perfection. My other favorite song from this album is The Fireman. Somehow it is able to invoke in me feelings I've never experienced as someone whose father was not an absent asshole. The Doctor is a beautiful song about wanting to surgically excise the negative aspects of us that we get from our parents. Things Left Behind is great for thinking about death. Wooden has a perfect guitar solo.
This album is unique, fleshed-out metaphors with mostly a handful of acoustic instruments and an excellent voice. I would change nothing about it. I plan on tattooing the cover on my body because I want it to be a permanent part of my skin.
I might have to write more on this. Transcendent album. if you like Weyes Blood, Angel Olson, Aimee Mann, you will enjoy this. If grief is as constant to you as breathing you will enjoy this. If you're mad at your dad you will enjoy this.
Get well soon (and I mean it)! xoxo
Oct 22, 2024
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i went to the paris catacombs yesterday with my boyfriend and it was sooooo cool
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i love a good americano. one of the simplest and tastiest variations on coffee. tastes even better in europe with a hand rolled cigarette. cigarette not pictured.
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my boyfriend got me the stardew valley cookbook for my birthday and i want to make every single recipe but most of them are soooo complicated like how tf am i supposed to recreate void mayonnaise (the strange bun recipe calls for TWO WHOLE LOBSTERS)
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