Altar to Cain


This website is where I express my love for Ethel Cain and all of Hayden Anhedönia's work. To be completely clear: this isn't an actual altar to a real person. It's an expression of my adoration for a particular artist's body of work. I just happen to love the idea of altars and shrines and such. There will likely be more to this than just Ethel Cain. This will eventually (hopefully) turn into a page on my personal website and blog.


PERVERTS

PERVERTS is an upcoming album set to release on January 8th of 2025. Hayden stated in a recent (as of 10/30/24) interview with HommeGirls that the album will have nine tracks and will be an hour-and-a-half long. The standout single "Punish" was officially released November first, but has been played live frequently.

My Feelings

I'm obsessed with all the new photography and themes and sounds Hayden's been putting out and posting recently. I find the color black to be far to harsh whenever I wear it, but when I paint with it I have to force myself to not cover the entire image. The urge to drown everything in ink has possessed me many times and I can feel that in these new photos. I can feel it in "Punish" too. The void, the empty, contrasted with the sonic fullness of the latter half of the song. It leaves so much room for your mind to wander or to simply sit, completely submerged underneath the dark pools, before being thrown into the middle of all-encompassing stimuli that pulls you down and pushes you upward at the same time. There is also, of course, vauge religious imagery present, but I don't have the words for that. Everything I feel strongly about has religious themes to me. Religion is passion I guess.

Theory

It feels important to mention that Hayden has implied on Tumblr that PERVERTS doesn't just refer to sexual deivience, although that is likely a big part of the album, but also the other version of the word; pronounced per-VERT instead of PER-vert and defined as "alter (something) from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended."



Hayden reblogged the above images on the official @mothercain tumblr blog, heavily implying that the OP, @twinsfawn, is correct in their collected passages and highlights in regards to the subject matter/philosiphy behind PERVERTS.

To help me remember; a simulacrum is an artificial image that becomes accepted as reality. Think of blue raspberry. There's no such thing as a blue raspberry, but you can't say it's not real because theres a flavor, name, and image attributed to it and it's literally everywhere. From what I understand, the idea is that everything has been so processed by people that we aren't living in natural reality. Maybe the perverts are people who didn't get the memo that we're living up in the clouds and act real so they're persecuted. Maybe I just accidentally just described autism. Maybe I'm not smart enough for this. Who knows.