Album Review: Ethel Cain - 'Perverts'

Ethel Cain’s latest album, Perverts, is a sharp departure from the haunted Americana of Preacher’s Daughter. If her 2022 debut mapped a Southern Gothic narrative of faith, familial trauma, and martyrdom, Perverts is a harsh confrontation with desire, decay, and defiance. The album avoids easy categorisation, leaning into experimental production and fragmented storytelling that feels deliberately unruly—as though Cain, Hayden Anhedönia’s musical persona, is both exorcising demons and summoning new ones.