Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl (Demo) Review and Rating

 Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl (Demo) Review & Rating

By Chilly Oppa


    With a beautiful dirty bassline and dreamy guitar notes, Ethel Cain introduces herself on the instrumental with her gritty melodic style of vocals. She brings us detailed imagery of a past lover as we've heard before but brings an entirely fresh and extremely creative delivery once the heavy baseline drops. Singing the final word of each bar in repetitions of 5-6, occasionally playing around with vibrato on some repetitions. Seeing this type of creativity in music is honestly what keeps me so passionate and excited to explore different genres. On top of the impressive vocals, Ethel Cain delivers heavy hitting lyrics about the complications of a love with someone that is destined to one day end. I know it's not just me when I say that this is one of Ethel Cains most anticipated unreleased tracks. I just hope it drops on streaming platforms eventually because this is easily one of her strongest pieces of work in my opinion. It makes me wonder what else Mother has in store for us. Seriously, well done!


Rating: 8.8/10 

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