Ethel Cain’s 2022 album, Preacher’s Daughter, tells the story of one woman’s life, death, and afterlife. It was her debut album, and the first in a trilogy telling the stories of three descendants of the biblical figure Cain, who committed the first murder in the Bible.
The album shifts between four different emotions represented in sections of the album: disdain, grief, pain, and peace. I chose to establish these through color with my visual aids, with green representing disdain, blue for grief, red for pain, and purple for peace.
Preacher's Daughter album by Hayden Anhedonia, 2022, Daughters of Cain Records
Artwork by Anna Ronan, 2024
God loves you, but not enough to save you.
01: DISDAIN
She feels nothing but disdain for her country, her values, her surroundings. Nothing is sacred any longer.
1: “Family Tree (Intro)”
2: “American Teenager”
02: GRIEF
A deep sadness chills to her bones; Tragedy after tragedy, revelation after revelation. Grief runs deep in her blood, she needs to get out.
3: “A House In Nebraska”
4: “Western Nights”
5: “Family Tree”
6: “Hard Times”
03: PAIN
She thought she found something worth stopping for, but he made a deal with the devil. When lust, addiction, and pain meet at the crossroads, all that’s left is blood.
7: “Thoroughfare”
8: “Gibson Girl”
9: “Ptolemaea”
10: “August Underground”
04: PEACE
Finally at rest, she can be at peace with it all- what they did to her, what he’s still doing to her. She just hopes his stomach is churning.
11: “Televangelism”
12: “Sun Bleached Flies”
13: “Strangers”