Inbred
Inbred
The 2021 EP that carried Ethel Cain to a wider underground, slowcore and shoegaze over trailer park hymnals.
- Michelle Pfeiffer4:31
The EP’s brightest cut, a rush of highway pop with lil aaron along for the ride. Fame, beauty, and ruin twinned from the first line.
Read lyrics and notes - Crush3:24
A small, glowing crush song, teenage want with its bruises priced in, every red flag reading as romance.
Read lyrics and notes - God’s Country8:15
Dread and devotion with Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, America as a church you cannot leave.
Read lyrics and notes - Unpunishable4:21
A slow hymn for the ones who do the hurting and are never held to account.
Read lyrics and notes - Inbred4:47
The title track names the family rot directly, a comatose mama, a brother loved to death, and a God she fears was gone all along.
Read lyrics and notes - Two‐Headed Mother6:12
The EP at its darkest and most abstract, a voice older than the man it addresses, creator and destroyer in one body.
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About the record
Inbred is the record where the project’s sound arrived: April 2021, six tracks broad enough to hold highway pop, eight minute dread, and piano confession at once. It drew the first serious attention from outside the early fan circle and set the terms, beauty and rot in the same frame, that Preacher’s Daughter would take to full length a year later.
Release details
- Released
- 23 April 2021
- Format
- EP
- Runtime
- 6 tracks · 31 minutes
- Credits
- Written and produced by Ethel Cain
- Label
- Daughters of Cain Records
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