al · 1mo
a bit of a tmi, listening to ethel cain for the first time ever brings me the sort of raw unbridled feelings i felt when i read your works, but especially with 'flames to ashes' and 'firefighter arson'. more closely to 'flames to ashes' who i still hold very dearly to my heart 💔 idk if i have already mentioned it, but reading that and listening to her made my breath stutter like i just wept in the absence of my inability to cry (sigh). the feelings made me feel mellow,
we love a tmi in this house. i actually had one of ethel cain’s songs in my library already “crush”. i don’t recall listening to it, so i did and added some of her other ones, too, and they are haunting - disturbing, in some cases - but raw. honest. i would be interested to know which songs specifically made you think of my stories. thematically “punish” and the line i am punished by love does make me think of flames to ashes. but the even darker songs make me think of firefighter. i don’t know, listening to her is like listening to some of the darker voices that resurface in my head every once in a while.
