- 2025-06-05
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MUSIC
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Ethel Cain Releases New Song “Nettles”
American singer-songwriter Hayden Anhedonia, aka Ethel Cain released a new song “Nettles” on June 4, 2025.
The song is the first single off of her upcoming sophomore album “Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You”, which is set to be released on August 8, 2025.
It was written and produced by Hayden Anhedonia.
The track features Donny Carpenter on fiddle, Todd Beene on pedal Steel, Dillon Hodges on banjo, Steven Colyer on organ, Matthew Tomasi on guitar, and Bryan De Leon on drums.
Ethel Cain also played banjo, synthesizers, electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, and piano.
Ethel Cain said of the song, “This song and the last track on the record were both written the same week, the very first week I moved into the house in Alabama where I finished Preacher's Daughter. In similar fashion to Preacher's Daughter (specifically 'A House in Nebraska' and 'Strangers'), I wrote what essentially became the beginning and end of the story without realizing it. What were originally just little vignettes of emotion I was feeling at the time ultimately became the tentpoles for a larger narrative. Nettles became a dream of losing the one you love, asking them to reassure you that it won't come true and to dream, instead, of all the time you'll have together as you grow old side by side. Every once in a blue moon, it feels good to slough off the macabre and to simply let love be.”- She shared on social media, “This was the very first song I ever wrote in the Alabama house where I finally finished Preacher's Daughter. I didn't even realize what story I was writing yet but I think subconsciously, because I knew how Preacher's Daughter was going to end, I wanted to go back in time to a moment of sweetness. I hope you enjoy the greenery, I love this song with all my heart (and all 10 versions of it across the past 4 years)”
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The new album comprises 10 tracks, on which she recorded and produced over the past year in her home studios in Coraopolis, PA and Tallahassee, FL.
It follows her experimental project “Perverts”, which was released back in January.
The album title is named for her first love, Willoughby Tucker.
Photo by Dollie Kyarn - source : Apple Music
