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* ''Unreleased I'' (Compilation, 2020)
* ''Unreleased II'' (Compliation, 2020)


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* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Arsony" starts with a [[SpokenWordInMusic recitation]] of the first few lines of the Book of Genesis.


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* FaceOnAMilkCarton: Mentioned in "Strangers."
-->''When my mother sees me on the side of a milk carton\\
In Winn-Dixie's dairy aisle, she'll cry and light up for me''
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Hayden Silas Anhedonia (born March 24, 1998), known by her StageName Ethel Cain, is an American SingerSongwriter from Tallahassee, Florida. Raised in Perry, Florida, she was raised in a Southern Baptist family and homeschooled for her entire life. She started writing and recording her own music in the mid 2010s, and officially started the Ethel Cain project in 2019. In 2022, she released ''Preacher's Daughter,'' which received critical acclaim and garnered her a cult following. Her music deals with themes of intergenerational trauma, DomesticAbuse, drug addiction, poverty, death, and religious trauma. Genre-wise, her music is considered DreamPop, SingerSongwriter, {{Ambient}}, AlternativeRock, and {{Slowcore}}.

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Hayden Silas Anhedonia Anhedönia (born March 24, 1998), known by her StageName [[StageName professionally]] as Ethel Cain, is an American SingerSongwriter from Tallahassee, Florida. Florida.

Raised in Perry, Florida, she was raised in a Southern Baptist family and homeschooled for her entire life. She was introduced to music through her family's church, becoming involved in the church's choir and studying classical piano; she eventually left the church when she was 16.

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started writing and recording her own music in the mid 2010s, mid-2010s, and officially started the Ethel Cain project in 2019. In 2022, after several successful EP releases, she released her debut album ''Preacher's Daughter,'' which received critical acclaim and garnered her a cult following. Her following.

Genre-wise, her music is considered a mix of DreamPop, SingerSongwriter, {{Ambient}}, AlternativeRock, and {{Slowcore}}. Thematically, her
music deals with themes of topics including intergenerational trauma, DomesticAbuse, drug addiction, poverty, death, and religious trauma. Genre-wise, her Her music is considered DreamPop, SingerSongwriter, {{Ambient}}, AlternativeRock, and {{Slowcore}}.
also notable for [[AlterEgoActing its use of "Ethel Cain" as a character separate from Hayden Anhedönia]], especially on ''Preacher's Daughter'', a ConceptAlbum for which Ethel serves as the protagonist.



!! And I still call home, that trope in Nebraska:

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!! And I still call home, that trope those tropes in Nebraska:



* AlbumIntroTrack: "Family Tree (Intro)."

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* AlbumIntroTrack: "Family Tree (Intro)."(Intro)" for ''Preacher's Daughter''.



* AwesomeMcCoolName: Hayden Silas Anhedonia. And it's not even the StageName she goes by.
* AlterEgoActing: Ethel Cain is a character. You'll often see fans refer to her as Hayden to differentiate her from the persona.

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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Hayden Silas Anhedonia.Anhedönia. And it's not even the StageName she goes by.
* AlterEgoActing: Ethel Cain is a character. You'll often see fans refer to her as the real-life Hayden by her real name to differentiate her from the persona.



* ConceptAlbum: ''Preacher's Daughter'' is one about a girl dying and going to Hell.

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* ConceptAlbum: ''Preacher's Daughter'' is one about a girl dying the character of Ethel Cain running away from her home in Alabama and going to Hell.[[spoiler:ultimately being murdered and cannibalized]].



* OneWomanWail: "August Underground" consists of Ethel vocalizing over an intense, haunting track. Fitting given it's the track corresponding to [[spoiler: Ethel being murdered by Isaiah.]]
* ParentalIncest: "Hard Times" reveals that [[spoiler: Ethel was a victim of this by [[PedophilePriest her own father.]] ]]

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* OneWomanWail: "August Underground" consists of Ethel vocalizing over an intense, haunting track. Fitting Fitting, given it's the track corresponding to [[spoiler: Ethel being murdered by Isaiah.]]
Isaiah]].
* ParentalIncest: "Hard Times" reveals that [[spoiler: Ethel was a victim of this by [[PedophilePriest her own father.]] father]].]]



** "From The River," a song she uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] in support of [[UsefulNotes/{{Palestine}} Palestinian liberation.]]
* RoadTripPlot: "Thoroughfare." Though it isn't as romantic [[UnreliableNarrator as the song initially makes it seem]].

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** "From The River," a song she uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] in support of [[UsefulNotes/{{Palestine}} Palestinian liberation.]]
liberation]].
* RoadTripPlot: "Thoroughfare." Though "Thoroughfare", though it isn't as romantic [[UnreliableNarrator as the song initially makes it seem]].



* UnreliableNarrator: Invoked with "Thoroughfare." The song revolves around Ethel describing how she met, traveled the west with, and fell in love with Isaiah while related source material reveals that [[spoiler: Isaiah had forcefully kidnapped her from the start and kept her drugged during their travels.]] "Gibson Girl" follows this up with Ethel embracing the role of the seductress when in reality [[spoiler: Isaiah is pimping her out and it's a coping mechanism for the scenario that she's trapped in.]]

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* UnreliableNarrator: Invoked with "Thoroughfare." The song revolves around Ethel describing how she met, traveled the west with, and fell in love with Isaiah Isaiah, while related source material reveals that [[spoiler: Isaiah had forcefully kidnapped her from the start and kept her drugged during their travels.]] travels]]. "Gibson Girl" follows this up with Ethel embracing the role of the seductress seductress, when in reality reality, [[spoiler: Isaiah is pimping her out and it's a coping mechanism for the scenario that she's trapped in.]]in]].
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* AlterEgoActing: Ethel Cain is a character. You'll often see fans refer to her as Hayden to differentiate her from the persona.
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** "From The River," a song she uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] in support of Palestinian liberation.

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** "From The River," a song she uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] in support of [[UsefulNotes/{{Palestine}} Palestinian liberation. liberation.]]
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* {{Instrumental}}: "Televangelism" has no singing, just an eerie piano.
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* RoadtripSong: "Thoroughfare." Though it isn't as romantic [[UnreliableNarrator as the song initially makes it seem]].

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* RoadtripSong: RoadTripPlot: "Thoroughfare." Though it isn't as romantic [[UnreliableNarrator as the song initially makes it seem]].
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-->''Stop, stop, stop... STOP!''

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-->''Stop, stop, -->''Stop... stop... STOP!''stop... '''STOP!'''''
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-->''Stop, stop, stop! STOP!''

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* CarefulWithThatAxe: Most notably on "Ptolemaea."
-->''Stop, Stop, Stop, STOP!''



* RoadtripSong: "Thoroughfare." Though it isn't as romantic [[UnreliableNarrator as the song initially makes it seem]].
* SpokenWordInMusic: The outro of "Ptolemaea," spoken in a pitched down CreepyMonotone.



* UnreliableNarrator: Invoked with "Thoroughfare". The song revolves around Ethel describing how she met, traveled the west with, and fell in love with Isaiah while related source material reveals that [[spoiler: Isaiah had forcefully kidnapped her from the start and kept her drugged up during their travels.]] "Gibson Girl" follows this up with Ethel embracing the role of the seductress when in reality [[spoiler: Isaiah is pimping her out and it's a coping mechanism for the scenario that she's trapped in.]]

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* UnreliableNarrator: Invoked with "Thoroughfare". "Thoroughfare." The song revolves around Ethel describing how she met, traveled the west with, and fell in love with Isaiah while related source material reveals that [[spoiler: Isaiah had forcefully kidnapped her from the start and kept her drugged up during their travels.]] "Gibson Girl" follows this up with Ethel embracing the role of the seductress when in reality [[spoiler: Isaiah is pimping her out and it's a coping mechanism for the scenario that she's trapped in.]]
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Hayden Silas Anhedonia (born March 24, 1998), known by her StageName Ethel Cain, is an American SingerSongwriter from Tallahassee, Florida. Raised in Perry, Florida, she was raised in a Southern Baptist family and homeschooled for her entire life. She started writing and recording her own music in the mid 2010s, and officially started the Ethel Cain project in 2019. In 2022, she released ''Preacher's Daughter,'' which received critical acclaim and garnered her a cult following. Her music deals with themes of intergenerational trauma, DomesticAbuse, drug addiction, poverty, death, and religious trauma. Genre-wise, her music is considered DreamPop, SingerSongwriter, {{Ambient}}, AlternativeRock, and slow-core.

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Hayden Silas Anhedonia (born March 24, 1998), known by her StageName Ethel Cain, is an American SingerSongwriter from Tallahassee, Florida. Raised in Perry, Florida, she was raised in a Southern Baptist family and homeschooled for her entire life. She started writing and recording her own music in the mid 2010s, and officially started the Ethel Cain project in 2019. In 2022, she released ''Preacher's Daughter,'' which received critical acclaim and garnered her a cult following. Her music deals with themes of intergenerational trauma, DomesticAbuse, drug addiction, poverty, death, and religious trauma. Genre-wise, her music is considered DreamPop, SingerSongwriter, {{Ambient}}, AlternativeRock, and slow-core.
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->''God loves you\\
But not enough to save you''
->--"Sun-Bleached Flies"



-->''God loves you\\
But not enough to save you''
-->--"Sun-Bleached Flies"
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* TheGunslinger: In real life, not in character. Being a proud Southerner, she owns quite a few.


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* TransTribulations: Subtextually. Part of why her music delves into themes of religious trauma and a love-hate relationship with DeepSouth culture is due to her experience being ostracized by her community when she came out as transgender.

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* ProtestSong: "American Teenager" is an anti-war song.

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* ProtestSong: ProtestSong:
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"American Teenager" is an anti-war song.song.
** "From The River," a song she uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] in support of Palestinian liberation.



* AWildRapperAppears: Lil Aaron and Wicca Phase Springs Eternal appear on the Inbred EP.

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* AWildRapperAppears: Lil Aaron and Wicca Phase Springs Eternal appear on the Inbred ''Inbred'' EP.

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