Ethel Cain

30,000 Palestinians have been killed under Israel’s occupation since October 2023 and countless thousands more since the occupation began 75 years ago. Over a third of them were children. While millions of Americans watched the Super Bowl, our government funded the assault on Raffah, which was supposed to be the last refuge for Palestinians in Gaza. The United States government is complicit in a genocide, which is certainly nothing new for us as a country. There is no way to spin this that doesn’t make this a crime against humanity. The least we can do as individuals is exactly what Palestinians have asked of us; that we not turn a blind eye, and remember exactly what has happened and continues to happen to the people of Palestine. This song is meant as a prayer for them. God be with every Palestinian man, woman, and child.

are you watching
there is nowhere left to go
would i matter if i looked like someone you know
all your money and good deeds
will not return my blood to me
from the river to the sea
please do not forget me

Ethel Cain の「من النهر（From the River）」は、パレスチナのために書き下ろされた楽曲です。２０２４年２月１５日に公開されました。「من النهر」は「From the River」と訳され、パレスチナをテーマにした楽曲です。２０２３年の１０月以降にイスラエルの占領下で３万人の市民が死亡したことを受けて書いたアコースティック・アンビエントの曲です。

Ethel Cain – dust bowl (demo)

Ethel Cain – Strangers (Demo II) the original album demo for strangers, taken from EC1 ❤

“God is telling you and I there is death, for all of us
But then we find that the scriptures also tell us that we have a great promise, that there is a better place for those who believe in the lord Jesus Christ”

In your basement, I grow cold
Thinking back to what I was always told
Don’t talk to strangers or you might fall in love
Freezer bride, your sweet divine
You devour like smoked bovine hide
How funny, I never considered myself tough

暗くガックシ落ち込んでるときのどっと暗さマシマシ曲は心に沁みますね。ガチョーン。マイブーム到来です。ヨッコイショーイチ。嵌まってます。Ethel Cain エセル・ケインは、フロリダの保守的な町で育ち、現在インディアナ州の田舎の幽霊が出そうな古い教会に住んでいる２４歳のシンガーソングライター Hayden Silas Anhedönia さんの真っ暗いプロジェクトです。Sad Music for Sad People 音楽的には、ダークで退屈、偏屈、ローファイ、聖火じゃなかったグレゴリオ聖歌の影響が少々。（まあ Ethel Cain って名前になるまえに１０代の頃にやってた「White Silas」のほうがもっと宗教色が強かった様子。）にしても、フロリダ感がぜんぜんないにせよ、フロリダじゃなくて多分シアトルでニルヴァーナのカート・コバーンの影響を受けているはず。もともと教会だった建物で暮らすのもわからないでもないけどかえってオカルトのようで怖い感じがぷんぷん。神聖ってよりは実にカルトっぽい。カルトでしょ。そして暗い。痩せ型の細い女性が白い服で立つ姿もそれを強調しているようです。２０２２年際立ってます、なう。ずしんとくる、んん～っ憂鬱メランコリー。整いました。

I sing the lord’s euthanasia blues
When I take you and your brother in the back pew
Drive into the median, keep myself from eating and wonder why I feel so sick
Tradition’s ligature marks always yellow through

I lied when I said I didn’t want you
In no time, you’ll forget the way we were supposed to be
Asking what I’m on this time, holding on to you like I do
Like we’re the only people in the world god left to mind to

Two drowning coals won’t ever light
But if I ask you to, you’ll warm the night

If I want you like I said I’d never do
I would hold my breath and sit down next to you
Terrified you’ll bite the hand that needs you
And right now I need you
I don’t know what happened
I don’t know what happened
I was young and sweet
And then something happened
Something overwhelming
Something everlasting

Time drags on
I hate him for the time he’s gone
I’ve been here for weeks, I’ve been here for years
I’ve been here too long
I forgot what stop means
Either I drink it or the boat sinks
It’s easy for him to get out of me
What I’ve been praying will get out of me

Will I always be crying during sex with you
All my dreams take place in heaven where it’s quiet, lying next to you
Heavy breathing and sighs, bruises between my thighs, look me deep In my eyes like I’m a river worth wading
And if I’m crying, it’s because I’m in love

And I could love you if I tried
And I’m trying
I’m trying, I’m trying, I’m trying

レトロの時代的なヒッピー感が大森の彼女。のどに彫られたプリーズってなんなんだろうね？呪術師っぽく、おでこの生え際にタトゥーあるのも特徴。

Ethel Cain – Crush

Ethel Cain – housofpsychoticwomn

Ethel Cain – American Teenager

Grew up under yellow light on the street
Putting too much faith in the make-believe
And another high school football team
The neighbor’s brother came home in a box
But he wanted to go, so maybe it was his fault
Another red heart taken by the American dream

And I feel it there
In the middle of the night
When the lights go out and I’m all alone again

Say what you want, but say it like you mean it
With your fists for once, a long cold war
With your kids at the front
Just give it one more day, then you’re done
Done
I do what I want, crying in the bleachers
And I said it was fun
I don’t need anything from anyone, it’s just not my year
But I’m all good out here

Sunday morning
Hands over my knees in a room full of faces
I’m sorry if I sound off, but I was probably wasted

And didn’t feel so good
Head full of whiskey but I always deliver
Jesus, if you’re listening let me handle my liquor
And Jesus, if you’re there, why do I feel alone in this room with you?

And I feel it there
In the middle of the night
When the lights go out
But I’m still standing here

Say what you want, but say it like you mean it
With your fists for once, a long cold war

With your kids at the front
Just give it one more day, then you’re done
Done
I do what I want, crying in the bleachers
And I said it was fun
I don’t need anything from anyone
It’s just not my year
But I’m all good out here

Say what you want, but say it like you mean it
With your fist for once
A long cold war
With your kids at the front

Just give it one more day, then you’re done
I do it for my daddy and I do it for Dale
I’m doing what I want and damn, I’m doing it well
For me, for me
For me, for me

路上で黄色の光の下で育ちました
化粧品にあまりにも多くの信仰を払う
そしてもう一つの高校のフットボールチーム
隣人の兄弟が箱の中で帰ってきました
しかし、彼は行きたかったので、それは彼のせいだったかもしれません
アメリカの夢が撮ったもう一つの赤いハート

そして私はそれを感じます
夜中に　ライトが消えているとき、私はすべて一人で再び

あなたが欲しいものを言うが、あなたがそれを意味するようにそれを言う
一度のあなたの拳で、長い冷戦
前面のあなたの子供たちと一緒に
もう1日くらい渡して、あなたは終わった　終わり
私は欲しいものをやりなさい、漂白剤で泣いています
そして私はそれが楽しかったと言った
私は誰からも何も必要ありません、それは私の年ではない
しかし、私はみんなここに夢中です

日曜日の朝
顔がいっぱいの部屋で私の膝の上に手を置く
私が鳴らしたらすみません、私はおそらく無駄だった
そして気分が悪くなかった
ウイスキーでいっぱいの頭がいつも届きます
イエス様、あなたが聞いているなら私は私の酒を扱うことができます
そして、あなたがそこにいるなら、イエス様は、
なぜあなたとこの部屋で一人で感じるのですか？

Ethel Cain – angel

Ethel Cain was working on a different concept album about “angels and stuff” When discussing Preacher’s Daughter, Cain explained, “So, I was actually working on a different concept album, first. I was having some weird LSD psychosis withdrawals. And I was making an album about angels and stuff. I was six months into producing, and I was digging through the Internet looking for samples, and I found this piano sample that was buried in folders. And I heard it and it was like a bell that rang out. I was like, “Oh, I have to do something with this.” So I wrote “A House in Nebraska” all in one day. It just began this vision; like, I don’t need to be worrying about angels. I need to be making music about prairie women.”