Earlier this year, Ethel Cain announced the album Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You and said that it would arrive in August. She’s now confirmed that her Preacher’s Daughter follow-up is out on Friday, August 8. The lead single, “ Nettles ,” is out now. Listen to it below.
Ethel Cain wrote, produced, and mixed “Nettles.” She also played banjo, synthesizers, electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, and piano, sang vocals, and handled a good deal of the engineering. She’s joined on the track by banjo player and acoustic guitarist Dillon Hodges, drummer Bryan De Leon, electric guitarist Matthew Tomasi, fiddler Donny Carpenter, organist Steven Colyer, and pedal steel player Todd Beene.
In a statement about “Nettles” shared on social media, Cain wrote: “this was the very firs