Ethel Cain with Colyer at Sons of Hermann Hall

The singer-songwriter Ethel Cain has an elaborate vision of becoming a different kind of pop star. She’s doing it from rural Alabama. she has found the beginnings of tastemaker recognition and fan obsession online. Her first record deal, signed amid the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, put some powerful people in her corner. At the same time, Cain has no manager and no interest in forcing a hit on TikTok or Spotify. The dreamy, longing songs on “Preacher’s Daughter” — largely written, recorded and produced alone in her bedroom — may be soaring in sound and intention, but they are deliberately slow, hazy and dense, often stretching past the six-minute mark before exploding into an out-of-fashion guitar solo or spooky instrumental passage.

– nytimes.com