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Her forthcoming EP, Inbred-which, like her other releases thus far, she wrote, recorded, produced, and mixed almost entirely on her own-expands Ethel Cain’s stylistic range considerably. “But she’s also my role model in a way, because she’s what I want to be.” Anhedönia began releasing a string of wispy songs and EPs under the moniker two years ago, sounding at times like a slowed and reverb version of her teen idol Florence Welch, or Lana Del Rey under the spell of Grouper.

“Ethel is not a separate character as much as a chunk of my life that I cut off to make her own entity, because it was getting to a point where she was taking me over,” Anhedönia explains. “The quintessential Florida experience,” she quips.Īs far as where Hayden Anhedönia begins and Ethel Cain ends, exactly, it’s still something she’s working out. She starts a story about a pivotal acid trip she took in the woods last year with something of a disclaimer: “I don’t even know if I can say this on here…” And she loves using the word “funky” to describe everything from her sheltered religious upbringing to a Tallahassee house she once lived in that was situated in the middle of a car lot and crawling with every insect imaginable. Though her music floats along a mood of dreamy doom, her unflinching lyrics detail scenes of self-harm, toxic sex, and hopeless decrepitude, and her very active Twitter feed (which she refers to as her “ADHD ramblings”) is filled with scary-funny bon mots like “all u need to know about me is that i was the girl in middle school who wanted to fuck slenderman,” Anhedönia is nothing but polite during our chat.

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She's toured with Code Orange twice, and in 2017 she collaborated with grindcore experimentalists Full of Hell on the title track for their album Trumpeting Ecstasy.She’s in her pandemic best-a dirt brown sweatshirt covered in images of leaves and tree bark, and pajama bottoms dotted with skulls-her hair pulled away from her face with a scrunchie, exposing a ring of tiny tattoos lining the top of her forehead.

While it isn't exactly rocking or metallic, per se, the overwhelming darkness of Dollanganger's output has also struck a chord with quite a few metal fans and musicians. Her high-pitched, child-like vocals lend an additional layer of creepiness to the proceedings - music that has resonated with everyone from fellow Canadian artist Grimes, who released Dollanganger's 2015 album Natural Born Losers, to controversial late rapper XXXtentacion, who sampled her song 'Poacher's Pride,' to the producers of The Walking Dead, who featured 2016 single 'Chapel' on the show's sixth season. Buoyed (and surprised) by the positive response it received, the musician, who is still only in her mid-twenties, has gone on to release five albums full of explicitly frank tales of kinky sex, untimely death, small-town violence, soul-crushing depression and grievous self-harm her sixth, Heart Shaped Bed, is due in full later this year.ĭollanganger's music is stately, ethereal and haunting, often sounding like something you'd hear emanating from an antique phonograph or cobweb-covered music box during a quietly ominous moment in a horror film. In 2011, Dollanganger announced herself as a singer and songwriter by posting 'Coma Baby,' a grim self-penned and -recorded lullaby, on Tumblr. 'The weirdness of the gothic kind of world she created was just so inspiring.' 'Getting introduced to her novels, like Flowers in the Attic, when I was 14, that just carved a lot of what my notions of romance ,' she explains with a laugh. She also found considerable inspiration - as well as her stage name (she was born Nicole Bell) - from the twisted works of author V.C. Growing up in Stouffville, Ontario, she began collecting creepy antique dolls at an early age - a hobby shared by her parents - and enthusiastically absorbed the bleak sagas sung by country queens Bobbie Gentry and Tammy Wynette, which her father regularly listened to. Things like that just provoked something in me.'ĭarkness has always been an intrinsic part of Dollanganger's life and work. Rosemary's Baby rocked my world as a kid, and The Exorcist left a big impact on me, as well.

'I think it goes back to something as simple as watching Tales From the Crypt. 'I've always been inspired by dark things,' says Nicole Dollanganger.

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