Let’s talk about and listen to Ethel Cain. Her music has been described as an unforgiving portrait of Southern Baptist America and it’s been said she fears no darkness.
You might enjoy the videos for Crush, God’s Country and The God (might be NSFW in some jurisdictions, caveat clicker) and her Soundcloud.
Cain is captivating, beautiful, and unabashedly feminine. Her music is tinged with a morbid Americana, her lyrics are at times bleak to the point of recommending her a psychiatrist. All of this is, of course, exactly the point… Cain isn’t looking through the past with rose-tinted glasses, she’s dredging up the horrors faced by America’s most betrodden. As such, Cain serves as a spokeswoman for America’s underbelly – she isn’t glorifying the violence she’s faced from these institutions, she’s simply reporting it.