Ethel Cain has dropped 'Nettles' ahead of her new album 'Willoughby Tucker'

Ethel Cain has unveiled new track 'Nettles', the first single from her forthcoming second album 'Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You'.

The new album serves as a prequel to Cain's 2022 debut 'Preacher's Daughter', telling the story of Ethel's first love, Willoughby Tucker. Cain produced and recorded the album in her home studios in Coraopolis, PA and Tallahassee, FL over the past year.

"This song and the last track on the record were both written the same week, the very first week I moved into the house in Alabama where I finished Preacher's Daughter," Cain explains. "In similar fashion to Preacher's Daughter (specifically 'A House in Nebraska' and 'Strangers'), I wrote what essentially became the beginning and end of the story without realizing it. What were originally just little vignettes of emotion I was feeling at the time ultimately became the tentpoles for a larger narrative. 'Nettles' became a dream of losing the one you love, asking them to reassure you that it won't come true and to dream, instead, of all the time you'll have together as you grow old side by side. Every once in a blue moon, it feels good to slough off the macabre and to simply let love be."

Cain will support the release with her completely sold-out Willoughby Tucker Forever tour, which sold 170,000 tickets across North America and Europe within weeks of going on sale in March.

The dates in full read:

AUGUST
12 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, USA
13 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, USA
15 Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
16 Edgefield, Portland, USA
18 The Greek Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
20 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, USA
21 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, USA
22 Arizona Financial Theatre, Phoenix, USA
24 The Bomb Factory, Dallas, USA
25 713 Music Hall, Houston, USA
26 Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park, Austin, USA
28 The Eastern, Atlanta, USA
29 The Eastern, Atlanta, USA
30 Asheville Yards, Asheville, USA

SEPTEMBER
4 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, USA
5 The Anthem, Washington DC, USA
6 The Met, Philadelphia, USA
9 Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA
10 Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, USA
12 Roadrunner, Boston, USA
13 Outer Harbor Live at Terminal B, Buffalo, USA
15 Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, Canada
16 Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, Canada
17 Masonic Cathedral Theatre, Detroit, USA
19 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, USA
20 The Salt Shed (Fairgrounds), Chicago, USA

OCTOBER
2 O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
3 O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
4 O2 Academy Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
6 Eventim Apollo, London, UK
7 Eventim Apollo, London, UK
9 Eventim Apollo, London, UK
10 Eventim Apollo, London, UK
11 Eventim Apollo, London, UK
14 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
15 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
16 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
18 L'Olympia, Paris, France
19 L'Olympia, Paris, France
21 Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne, Germany
23 Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
24 Docks, Hamburg, Germany
25 Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark
27 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
28 Fållan, Stockholm, Sweden
31 Stodola, Warsaw, Poland

NOVEMBER
1 Velký sál Lucerna, Prague, Czech Republic
2 Gasometer, Vienna, Austria
4 X-tra, Zurich, Switzerland
5 Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
7 Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
8 Teatro Eslava, Madrid, Spain
9 LAV Warehouse, Lisbon, Portugal