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\n\tFolks have been talking about the dissolution of the album format for years now, as streaming culls out singles and embeds them in appropriately themed playlists. The experience of listening to an LP in order has become kind of a novelty for some \u2013 the cohesion of each song bleeding into the next has been scrapped, the intended story deferred. Ethel Cain<\/a> (a.k.a. Hayden Anhed\u00f6nia) doesn\u2019t make music for playlists \u2014 as evidenced, once more, by her sophomore LP, Willoughby Tucker, I\u2019ll Always Love You.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tLike a sweet-voiced Stephen King, Anhed\u00f6nia pens epics that unfold against pastoral scenes of God\u2019s Country where people try and fail to lacquer over the innate horrors of living. In many ways, she\u2019s almost more performance artist than musician, composing her 2021 EP, Inbred<\/em>, in the basement of an old Indiana church, and conjuring the Southern Gothic saga of the fictional Ethel Cain, a character Anhed\u00f6nia created for 2022\u2019s Preacher\u2019s Daughter<\/em>. That album \u2014 which mingled Lana Del Rey<\/a> moodiness with dashes of the club \u2014 followed Cain as she fled an abusive father, only to end up murdered and cannibalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n