Sounds | Ethel Cain - Fuck Me Eyes
- John Van de Mergel
- 4 jul
- 3 minuten om te lezen
Bijgewerkt op: 5 jul
Grenzen opzoeken, dat is wat het ontdekken van nieuwe muziek pas écht boeiend maakt. Gewoonlijk laat ik 'pop' aan me voorbij gaan. Zeker wanneer het om de (al te) gehypte groten op deze planeet gaat. Toch zit er nu en dan iemand tussen waar ik niet omheen kan. Deze keer gaat het om Hayden Silas Anhedönia, aka Ethel Cain. Fuck Me Eyes is een hommage aan Bette Davis Eyes, één van haar favoriete popsongs en gaat in op middelbareschoolangsten. De nieuwe single volgt Nettles op en kondigt haar tweede full album aan dat zal verschijnen op haar eigen label. Jaja, de nieuwe generatie muzikanten heeft hun zaakjes goed op het droge. Voor wie het live wil meemaken... bummer, het concert in de AB is al lang uitverkocht. Zo'n 2.000 getormenteerde tienermeisjes en heel de Belgische LGBTQQIAAP2S community is jullie voor.
Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You verschijnt op 8 augustus via Daughter of Cain Records.
Luister ook naar: Nettles
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"Fuck Me Eyes’ is meant to be an ode to the girls who are perfect and have everything, yet carry the reputation of town slut,” says Cain creator Hayden Anhedönia. “The beautiful blonde who is just lonely and wants to be loved, that all the adults condemn to each other, who ultimately is the girl everyone simultaneously can’t stand and wants to be. I wrote the beginning of this song five years ago, making it the oldest demo for the record. As the story became more fleshed out, I realized it had a more relevant place on the album than I originally thought. This song represents Ethel’s complicated feelings for the girl she’s convinced has caught her crush’s eye, as well as her 16-year-old thoughts on the matter.”
In June, Cain shared “Nettles” to widespread critical acclaim: The New York Times noted it “unfolds in a haze of memories, longing, pain and loss” while PAPER called it “a masterclass, finding her singing a gorgeous, heartbreaking love song over mournful bluegrass.”
Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You serves as a prequel to Cain’s globally adored 2022 debut album Preacher’s Daughter and recounts the story of Ethel’s first love, Willoughby Tucker, and their humid, laden romance. Cain produced and recorded the album over the past year in her studios in Daleville, AL, Coraopolis, PA and Tallahassee, FL. The writing of the songs themselves spans her entire career as Ethel Cain, with some dating from the earliest days of the project and its mythmaking.
Cain will celebrate the release with her massive Willoughby Tucker Forever tour across North America and Europe kicking off in August. The tour sold out completely upon on sale in March, with 170,000 tickets sold in just a few weeks. The run will see Cain headline New York’s Radio City Music Hall and Kings Theatre, two nights at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, Berkeley’s Greek Theater, five nights at London’s Eventim Apollo, two nights at Paris’ L’Olympia and many more.
Ethel Cain is the creation of Florida-born multidisciplinary artist Hayden Anhedönia. After years spent teaching herself to produce at home in the Florida panhandle and releasing various projects, Cain moved to Indiana and singlehandedly wrote, produced, recorded and mixed her acclaimed 2021 EP Inbred from the basement of the old church where she lived.
Cain’s debut album Preacher’s Daughter, a multimedia work that took more than four years to assemble, was released in May 2022 to praise from The New York Times, NPR, Vogue, W Magazine, V Magazine and more, with many critics naming the album one of the best of the year. Cain has spent the years since playing sold out shows and packed festival sets around the world; walking in New York and Paris fashion weeks and collaborating with Givenchy, Miu Miu and Calvin Klein; and collaborating and sharing stages with Florence + the Machine, Mitski and more.
