Ethel Cain's Gorgeous and Desolate Movie: "Preacher's Daughter" review
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2022
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the beginning felt like a huge middle finger to the pitchfork review and i heavily support it!!
Pitchfork's review is a heavy insult to Ethel Cain
pitchfork is a disgrace and theyve proven that many times
The Pitchfork review was.....bizarre.
I'm not gonna hate on Pitchfork....they often get it right, and I've discovered a ton of great music thru them.
BUT....when they do get it wrong, it's always kinda baffling.
Oh well.....a review is just one random person's opinion. That opinion only matters if they have something interesting to add to the overall critique and assesment of the work. Which is why I like THIS channel so much...
many of us think American teenager is the lowest point of the album, just because it's a more catchy and pop song. It's probably made to obtain some radio broadcast in some way, because no one will broadcast 8 minutes songs on the radio. But still, if you listen to the lyrics, it makes perfectly sense in the story, it's not just an attempt to go mainstream.
Lowest point of the album is highly offensive lmao. That song is great and serves as a great first track before the descent into madness.
@@SpiritHunterDSG it's not offensive. It's a great song but many other songs in the album are better. PD is a masterpiece. I'm serious. I'm 55, I've been listening to music for more than four decades and I'm not just an enthusiast teenager. Ethel/Hyden is gonna make the history of music. Believe me.
its not made for radio purposes, giving that the song wasnt even the main single, hayden just wanted to make a poppier song !!!
Finding out Profs skye’s dad being the inventor of christian rock is exactly why i watch these videos
I've never been _that_ into lyrics....
I've always been way more into the sheer music and atmosphere and timbre of the songs/artists I love.
But......Ethel's music has really turned me on to the notion of lyrics being hyper important. Her lyrics are gorgeous and fascinating to me. Total poetry....even without the music, just reading them....is a fulfilling experience.
As well as Lana, and a smidge to Taylor, this album gives me major Chelsea Wolfe, Emma Ruth Rundle and King Woman (Kristina Esfandiari) vibes.
id say she draws more inspiration from nicole dollanganger than lana and taylor. the others i agree with
I thought of Lingua Ignota, but thats probably just the religious theme
@@SanFranFan30 I can sort of see where you're coming from... The religious aspect, the confronting of abuse, and also weaving in a heavy Americana (albeit different sounds) to realise their vision, means they share key touchstones. Maybe on record they're still very different, but I could see them on the same bill as one another and it being very complimentary!
Thoroughfare sounds like a song from RED or Speak Now too
I also heard a bit of Florence, Imogen Heap, a bit of Anya and even Dido? It's a unique blend
Brilliant and brutal album.
This is the most apt description I have seen.
I LOVED her EP "Inbred" so much....
So I was kinda nervous when Preacher's Daughter came out. I wanted it to be great....and was so worried it wouldn't be.
So imagine how _thrilled_ I was when midway through the album I realized....wait! There's not been ONE bad song so far!?
Honestly, it totally matched and exceeded my expectations and hopes. She nailed it. Cannot wait for more music....
tbh i don't really get the comparison to taylor swift. lana makes more sense, but i don't think either are perfect comparisons to make. i think nicole dollanganger, chelsea wolfe, & florence + the machine would all make far better comparisons in terms of getting people to understand what she's all about. ethel has even listed nicole as one of her main inspirations & has covered two of her songs (tammy faye & poacher's pride iirc.)
(also check out those both nicole dollanganger & chelsea wolfe, both of them need way more attention than they get.)
How (pleasantly) surprised I was when I found out that this almost pop-oriented artist had written an entire song in reference to August Underground is indescribable.
Honestly, great film. It got me started in all the pseudo-snuff & found-footage genre. If someone is looking for recommendations (which I doubt), here are some: The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), Atroz (2015), The Butcher (2007), Long Pigs (2007).
There's also a very interesting mockumentary called "S&Man" starring Fred Vogel (director of August Underground). As stated by a letterboxd reviewer: "It’s a faux documentary horror film that is part actual documentary on the underground horror world and then part like...found footage horror?"
PS, great review as always, Skye.
FTR - She herself said "Televangelism" is her favourite song on the album.
Hayden Anhedönia. Anhedonia is the inability to feel pleasure.
What a great interview!
What an amazingly insightful beautiful soul!
I really enjoyed hearing the voice behind the voice of Ethel Cain, who I only recently found tripping through Spotify!
I’m in my 50’s and love discovering new 🎶 music!
I’ll never say “they stopped making good music in the _____ pick an era any era!”
There’s always new music to be discovered, always! But Ethel Cain is a true gem, and I so look forward to exploring more of her work🎈
Thanking you for sharing your gift with the world!!!
She produced herself in collaboration with a co-producer, Matthew Tomasi, who's also credited as co-author of a couple of song.
Another day...another great video from this man❤
Great review! I’m glad you decided to talk about this LP.
You perfectly described my own personal gripe with this album with having to pay attention the entire time. I find with Inbred and her other music that I can just put it on and vibe and it doesn’t demand my full focus.
I agree that American Teenager is definitely the most out of place song on this album and part of me wishes she had left it as a stand alone single but I also kind of like the whiplash it gives to the overall tone of the album.
Wild that you and your ex-wife were both children of ministers/preachers! I grew up in the same sort of atmosphere as the both of you as well as Ethel, although up north rather than in the Bible Belt so her music and image feels very personal to me. I almost feel like I know her because I do in fact know girls just like her. Not everyone understands the full weight of what Ethel is about in my opinion so your review was very refreshing!
Loving the album, and loved your words on it.
August Underground is NOT a snuff film. There is nothing real about it and the creator has always been very clear and upfront that it’s 100% fake. It’s just an extreme, completely scripted and fake movie
a snuffploitation film, if you will
I had to sub after hearing the references from The Cranberries and Blind Melon to a version of art for Dante’s Inferno I’d never seen before to Faces Of Death (a series of films my best friend in high school would rent everytime we went to the video store-He wasn’t repeat watching them, he was working through them.)
Just hitting so many bells for me 😂
wow such a great and amazing music review! would you mind doing one for Brian Wilson's album Smile? It would be even greater i think
Funny thing, I decided to watch this review after deciding that American Teenager is one of my favorite songs this year. Great review anyways, I suspected there was a narrative to it but my ideas were much more simplistic than what I found out by watching this.
this was a fantastic review! so glad to see ethel getting the shine she deserves. Prof Skye, you should consider reviewing "Wildlife" by La Dispute. it's another example of a perfect concept album, imho.
Love Wildlife, such a worthwhile listen!!!
Great review, the album really does feels like a movie
Professor - will you be discussing/reviewing the brand new music debuted this week by Black Country New Road? Their performances from May 19 and May 20 (last week) are both on CZcams and all of the music from those shows are new songs.
Prof -- I'd like to see you review Stuck's full-length Change Is Bad.
I heard the Blind melon reference. I thought the exact same thing. The BM song Time feel at the end of Thorofare
AOTY hands down.
You mentioned her mother at the end. I heard this is part one on a trilogy that explores generational trauma. The next LP will be The Preacher’s Wife, and the final act will be the Preacher’s Mother (Mother Cain?). The three women connected to titular character. In this LP we learned the preacher is dead, but we don’t know how he died. Ethel makes several references in the album that suggest she has killed someone? Did she kill her father? Did her mother? I suspect there is more to the story, and we’ll learn it as we get the story of the other women in the preacher’s life. I can’t wait! 😅
I'll share that while you did not have a successful encounter with this album in a car ride, I had a phenomenal one with it. This came out in the summer and I had listened to it not very successfully until I was moving from one midwest state to another at night with all my belongings in my car, it felt right. It was specifically Thoroughfare, just beautiful at night with the wind outside and the only light on the highway my own.
"You're in Ethel Country" ❤
Just found your channel - can you make a video explaining what makes good production versus bad production? thanks!
Skye please review the new Everything Everything album! Highly recommend it and the band's modern classic "Get To Heaven"
YESS LETS GOOOO
@Professor Skye
I just looked through your videos and noticed you have not reviewed a Lil Baby project. "My turn" or "Voice of the heroes" It would be really great if you did, I think he's going to release a project within the year so look out for that
The artist that came to mind after my 5th or 6th listen was actually Lingua Ignota.
Ptolemaea is so Lingua Ignota lyrically and sonically
love it! please do sky ferreira!
Thanks for your review, that is what a review should be: explanation and information, not arbitrary criticism. I agree on everything you said.
i like your blue sweatshirt!
Weird, Spotify JUST recommended me this album...
Best album of 2022!
i like the "low point" song especially because its a pop song with this deep, dark lyrics. and hey, it makes so much sense at this moment of a concept album. it is Ethels life as a american teenager before everything changes. it is not heavy and tragicly but also not happy. but best and most emotional song is "strangers".
my brother did a song with her a while back. it's really good. (i'm not biased or anything...)
that’s so nice, wich one?
@@ladylordeve Something keeps happening to my reply. I guess CZcams is removing it because it is self-promotional? I don't know what's going on.
@@ladylordeve i linked it on my about page
Ptolemea I really feel like the last lines were spoken by the proverbial devil. 🤷♀️
Mix of Steinbeck and Faulkner at a very early stage.
Amazing stripped down performances of the highlights from the album: czcams.com/video/9sAEcR5FgYo/video.html
i like your blue sweatshirt
definitely a W LP
I couldn’t make it through the brutality of this album very easily. There are only a few of the songs that will make a playlist for me… I just can’t live into these scene-scapes… too triggering.
the way i gasped when he said American Teenager was the low point of the album lol
I mean it's the most basic pop song on the album.
@@SanFranFan30 it’s the only pop song on the album and there is nothing basic about it.
I never gasp.
I know. American Teenager is a perfect Pop song, and it shows that Ethel could rival the top pop artists today.
Right? The rest is pretty brutal, it was a relief to me. A chance to breathe
I agree that American Teenager is the low point. Great review!