Ethel Cain Announces New Album Perverts
The long-anticipated Preacher's Daughter follow-up is set to arrive January 8.
For a few years now, fans have clamored to the hope that Ethel Cain’s sophomore album would arrive. Preacher’s Daughter, her spellbinding debut that we just named one of the best albums of the 2020s so far, came out in May 2022 and turned Cain into one of the biggest indie musicians in the world.
“Preacher’s Daughter possess a weightiness and impulse away from ironic glamorization of the American dream and toward outright criticism that render the comparison only so relevant,” Paste contributor Devon Chodzin wrote. “At times the record throbs with a noisy, immersive intensity before transitioning into the kind of epic guitar solos that decorated the cult of rock personalities in generations past. This collision of dark ambient and Def Leppard is uniquely American in the best way conceivable.”
2 million monthly listeners and a number of festival headlining sets later, and Cain confirmed on Instagram this morning that her next LP, Perverts, will be arriving on January 8, 2025 and that “Punish,” it’s lead single, is just weeks away from release.
This past weekend, Ethel Cain took the stage in Los Angeles with American Football to perform “For Sure,” which she already made a nine-minute cover of for the band’s upcoming 25th anniversary LP1 tribute album (due out October 18 via Polyvinyl).
