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100
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.
100
Preacher’s Daughter is a record that breathes authenticity while reframing and reshaping its creator’s experiences, seemingly in hopes of finding some sense or purpose.
90
This is an album that pairs cock-rock riffs and 80s snares with thundering sludge and drone instrumentals.
90
Because she has, and the magic of Ethel Cain is her ability to translate that lived experience into soundscapes. Preacher's Daughter is an American epic.
90
The artist’s debut LP interweaves powerful genre influences and haunting narratives, beginning to chart the Ethel Cain lore.
90
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.
90
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.
90
Ethereal and devastating, Preacher’s Daughter is a startling demonstration of talent by Ethel Cain. The album cultivates and brandishes a voice worth stopping and listening to and, ultimately, fully submerging to.
88
Combining the storytelling of Taylor Swift’s folklore and the musical theater readiness of Spellling’s The Turning Wheel, Preacher’s Daughter comes across more like an event than any singular album.
80
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.
64
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 76-minute album dwells on roiling gloom and smoldering Americana.
60
The introspective singer explores identity and religion amid a backdrop of seedy Americana on this rich, haunting debut.
Whole Lotta Reverb
Edit (55 - > 75): Going in with the reference that it is Slowcore helps a lot. It feels very dragged out. there are some huge highlights in the second half. Not an album I am jumping for joy here, but I can see how my first impression was not really fully reflective of the whole experience.
brutal and unnerving storytelling, bass and riffs you can feel in the back of your spine and brain, deep cuts that go straight through the heart. ethel cain is a product of all the lana del reys and nico dollangangers of the world just a tad more polished and focused. this being her debut album but sounds like she has years of experience behind her with this album. cant wait what this woman has in store for us.
From a distance, I had a feeling I would love this album. And while clocking in at a staggering, intense hour and 15 minutes, Ethel over-delivers. This is a visually intense, crushing, narrative driven album that is absolutely not for the faint of heart. Sex, drugs, sexual abuse, murder, the open road, the American Dream, and more are crammed into this monolithic release. Ethel also touches down on numerous genres, from classic Singer-Songwriter material, to blisteringly gloomy SlowCore, ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Family Tree (Intro) 3:41 | 88 |
| 2 | American Teenager 4:18 | 92 |
| 3 | A House In Nebraska 7:46 | 90 |
| 4 | Western Nights 6:05 | 84 |
| 5 | Family Tree 7:10 | 91 |
| 6 | Hard Times 5:03 | 88 |
| 7 | Thoroughfare 9:27 | 91 |
| 8 | Gibson Girl 5:42 | 90 |
| 9 | Ptolemaea 6:23 | 93 |
| 10 | August Underground 3:40 | 82 |
| 11 | Televangelism 3:03 | 85 |
| 12 | Sun Bleached Flies 7:36 | 91 |
| 13 | Strangers 5:44 | 93 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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fitting Inbred into the narrative and tonal structure of Preacher's Daughter:
1. Family Tree (intro)
2. American Teenager
2.5 Crush
3. A House in Nebraska
3.5 Michelle Pfeiffer
4. Western Nights
4.5 God's Country
5. Family Tree
5.5 Inbred
6. Hard Times
7. Thoroughfare
7.5 Unpunishable
8. Gibson Girl
9. Ptolomaea
10. August Underground
11. Televangelism
11.5 Two-Headed Mother
12. Sun Bleached Flies
13. Strangers
1. Family Tree (intro)
2. American Teenager
2.5 Crush
3. A House in Nebraska
3.5 Michelle Pfeiffer
4. Western Nights
4.5 God's Country
5. Family Tree
5.5 Inbred
6. Hard Times
7. Thoroughfare
7.5 Unpunishable
8. Gibson Girl
9. Ptolomaea
10. August Underground
11. Televangelism
11.5 Two-Headed Mother
12. Sun Bleached Flies
13. Strangers
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Added on: March 17, 2022