Ethel Cain has announced her new album, Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You, set for release on August 8th, with the first single 'Nettles' available now. This album serves as the prequel to her 2022 debut, Preacher's Daughter, and explores her reminiscences of her first love. Cain reflects on her creative process, sharing that songs like 'Nettles' were born from deep emotions experienced during her time in Alabama. The album promises a blend of gothic strings and acoustic melodies that encapsulate themes of love and longing. Cain will embark on a North American and European tour following the album's release.
"In similar fashion to Preacher's Daughter, I wrote what essentially became the beginning and end of the story without realizing it. What were originally just little vignettes of emotion I was feeling at the time ultimately became the tentpoles for a larger narrative."
"Setting the tone for the new album, 'Nettles' is an eight-minute ode to lost love and a wistful rumination on what could have been."
"I can hear them singin'/ 'To love me is to suffer me,' and I believe it/ When I lay with you in that auld lang room."
"Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You is the prequel to her acclaimed 2022 debut, Preacher's Daughter, thematically focusing on the artist's relationship with her first love."
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