Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter (Vinyl 2LP) A vinyl record album with a dark cover photo of a seated woman in a white dress in a dimly lit room, shown with two black records partially visible behind the sleeve on a light beige background.
Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter (Vinyl 2LP) record album cover showing a woman in a white dress sitting in a dimly lit room with a painting on the wall.

Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter (Vinyl 2LP)

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Alternative · Shoegaze & Dream Pop

Black Vinyl • 2LP • First Official Vinyl Pressing

'Family Tree (Intro)' opens in a hymn-like hush, voices stacked like a church choir heard through a wall. Then 'American Teenager' blows the doors open, big drums and bright guitars, the sunniest thing here by miles. 'A House In Nebraska' slows to piano and ends on a long, crying guitar solo. 'Thoroughfare' takes nine minutes to get anywhere, acoustic guitar rolling down the highway. 'Ptolemaea' is where it turns, a slow, crushing build into distortion and screams. 'Sun Bleached Flies' lifts into gospel. 'Strangers' closes on piano and not much else. Quiet, then gone.

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Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

Preacher's Daughter is the debut studio album from American singer-songwriter Ethel Cain, a slow-burning Americana record first released on her own Daughters Of Cain label in May 2022. This double LP is its first official vinyl pressing, released in April 2025.

Hayden Anhedönia, the artist behind Ethel Cain, wrote and produced it, with Steven Colyer co-writing 'American Teenager' and Matthew Tomasi adding production to 'Ptolemaea' and 'August Underground' as well as mixing the album, which Dale Becker mastered. It is a concept album, the first of a planned trilogy, following the fictional Ethel Cain through a Southern Gothic story of religion, family and escape, drawn loosely from Anhedönia's own upbringing as the daughter of a deacon.

Alongside Americana, it moves through dark ambient passages, roots rock and slowcore across 13 tracks and more than 75 minutes. 'Gibson Girl' was the lead single, followed by 'Strangers' and 'American Teenager'. When the vinyl arrived in 2025, the album debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, making Cain the first openly transgender artist to reach the top ten.

Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You followed in 2025 as a prequel to this story, and the two sit side by side naturally on the shelf.

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. Family Tree (Intro)
  2. American Teenager
  3. A House In Nebraska
  4. Western Nights

Side B

  1. Family Tree
  2. Hard Times
  3. Thoroughfare

Side C

  1. Gibson Girl
  2. Ptolemaea
  3. August Underground
  4. Televangelism

Side D

  1. Sun Bleached Flies
  2. Strangers
Pressing details.
Format
2LP
Sleeve

Gatefold

Vinyl colour

Black

Label
Daughters Of Cain Records
Barcode

5056167180135

Catalogue number
DOCLP01
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
12 May 2022
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