
Ethel Cain has unveiled the first single off her new project “Perverts”, Cain has said that the follow-up to 2022’s great “Preacher’s Daughter“,
“Perverts”, is on the way, due out on January 8th via Daughters of Cain, and we now have a few more details about the project. It’s 90 minutes long and takes inspiration from drone, noise, slowcore, ambient and beyond. Ethel wrote and produced it over the past year between Coraopolis, PA and Tallahassee, FL, and she wrote a piece about it, “The Consequence of Audience,” .
Sharing the first single from “Perverts”, the haunting track “Punish,” Of the song, she says, “I wonder how deep shame can run, and how unforgivable an act could be that I may still justify it in some bent way to make carrying it more bearable.
Would I tell myself it’s not my fault and I couldn’t help myself? Would anyone truly believe that? Would I?”