Hayden Anhedönia's Southern gothic music reflects her personal narrative and artistic ambitions. She developed the Ethel Cain character, her musical alter ego, in her album Preacher's Daughter, which narrates a gritty saga of women through familial trauma in a Southern evangelical context. The upcoming prequel, Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You, introduces a love triangle and continues to explore themes of fragility and the American dream. Anhedönia's music combines elements of slowcore and folk, focusing on ambiance rather than explicit storytelling, creating an atmospheric listening experience.
Anhedönia wrote music: atmospheric, genre-blurring, and low-budget songs that could soundtrack a séance.
Ethel Cain is the protagonist of Preacher's Daughter, the first installment of a trilogy that explores familial trauma and the Southern evangelical setting.
The prequel, Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You, focuses on a teenage love triangle involving Ethel Cain, defining themes of fragility and the American dream.
The project subsists more on ambiance than on plot, with Anhedönia gravitating toward sounds that are laggy, distorted, and reminiscent of dinged-up records.
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