Ethel Cain “hunted down” synthesisers from ‘Twin Peaks’ for sprawling new tune ‘Nettles’
Ethel Cain has launched the sprawling eight-minute single ‘Nettles’, which options synthesisers that she tracked down from a composer on Twin Peaks.
‘Nettles’ options on her upcoming second album, ‘Willoughby Tucker, I’ll At all times Love You’, which she introduced earlier this yr. The forthcoming document will function a prequel to ‘Preacher’s Daughter’, and was preceded by this yr’s ‘Perverts’ EP.
‘Nettles’ is a banjo-led eight-minute epic that sees her chronicle “a dream of shedding the one you’re keen on, asking them to reassure you that it received’t come true and to dream, as an alternative, of on a regular basis you’ll have collectively as you develop previous facet by facet.”
Hearken to Ethel Cain’s ‘Nettles’ beneath.
Apart from laying down vocals and the banjo, Cain additionally performs synthesisers, piano, electrical, acoustic and bass guitars on the monitor. The tune can also be a tip of the hat to late director David Lynch‘s beloved collection Twin Peaks.
On certainly one of her art-focused accounts, Cain defined that bits of ‘Nettles’ was impressed by Twin Peaks, and that she hunted down the precise synthesisers that composer Angelo Badalamenti used to document the present’s basic theme tune. The synthesisers are additionally seeming used elsewhere on the upcoming album.
“To everybody saying the intro reminds them of Twin Peaks; late final yr I watched that video of Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote Laura’s theme and cherished it a lot that I hunted down the synths he used for the Twin Peaks soundtrack and people are those I used for ‘Willoughby…’”, she wrote.
ethel cain used the identical synths that angelo badalamenti used for the dual peaks soundtrack for her new album! pic.twitter.com/pnV9Td7XRC
— jam (@albertspath) June 4, 2025
Ethel Cain has additionally newly confirmed that her new album ‘Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You’ will release on August 8 – you may pre-save or pre-order the album here.
Following the album’s launch, Cain is ready to go on tour, which is ready to be her largest up to now. She is going to play in venues together with London’s Eventim Apollo, Paris’ L’Olympia, New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, and Berkeley’s Greek Theater.
The US run will start in August, whereas the UK trek begins in October. You should purchase UK tickets here and US tickets here.
Cain’s final mission ‘Perverts’ scored a four-star evaluation from NME: “Informal followers could not final even three minutes. However for many who are prepared to take a seat with its discomfort, ‘Perverts’ reveals hidden depths – the identical manner that eyes want time to regulate to low gentle. What it displays is within the eye of the beholder.”
In April, Cain made historical past when she turned the primary overtly trans artist to attain a high 10 album within the US for her critically-acclaimed debut studio document, ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ – nearly three years after its preliminary launch in Could 2022.
In different Ethel Cain-related information, she made headlines this yr after sharing her ideas on the high-profile homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson after he was shot lifeless exterior a Manhattan lodge in December 2024.
The killing led to a manhunt that lasted a number of days, with police finally arresting Luigi Mangione, who was discovered carrying a three-page manifesto through which he criticised the American healthcare system. Cain expressed frustration with the healthcare system and mentioned that whereas she wasn’t being “reactionary”, violence was “typically” the reply. “It’s easy,” she wrote. “You make them concern for his or her lives and hit them in the one place they damage or nothing will ever get completed.” She signed off the Instagram put up with the hashtag “KillMoreCEOs”.
She was then met with a surge of backlash and criticism, primarily from conservatives and the correct wing. Fox Information even known as for a boycott of the musician due to her “terrorist” and “wicked” feedback.