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Perverts is Hayden Anhedönia’s 90-minute-long fourth extended play under the alias Ethel Cain, released on January 8, 2025. The record was fully produced and mixed by Hayden. The lead single, "Punish", was released on November 1, 2024. It is not related to the actual character of Ethel Cain that we learned about in 2022’s “Preacher’s Daughter”. Ethel Cain released her debut studio album, Preacher's Daughter, in 2022, to critical acclaim. It centered on the fictional character of the same name, and contained Southern Gothic imagery and themes including religious indoctrination, sexual violence, isolation, and family trauma. Following its release, the album was included in several year-end lists of best music and she garnered a cult following online. Speaking with Kiernan Shipka for Interview in June 2023, Cain expressed her excitement to "push it farther into the direction that always wanted to go" on her next full-length release, which is "10- to 20-minute songs just drenched in reverb, so slow, and super repetitive." She continued: "I have a huge affinity for slowcore and ambient music I feel a bit more confident doing that and less worried about what people will think." In 2024, Cain debuted various songs at her third concert tour, the Childish Behaviour Tour, including "Punish" and "Amber Waves". In parallel, she published a video with a snippet of new music and clips from the 1990 British-Canadian horror film The Reflecting Skin. Following the end of the tour, Cain t
