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  • Summary: The second full-length studio release from Ethel Cain features four tracks with runtimes more than 11 minutes long and features contributions from Angel Diaz and 9million's Matthew Tomasi.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Jan 31, 2025
    91
    It’s a haunting, stunning final result, and one of the boldest releases the scene has seen in years.
  2. Jan 10, 2025
    90
    Its passion, its production, and Anhedönia’s carefully chosen collaborators elevate it from merely an expectation-confounding volte-face to something far greater: a musical assemblage of integrity and bravery, a new benchmark, and the epitome of a no-skip album.
  3. 80
    Although Cain is clearly pushing away one type of fan, this album is destined to bind others more closely to her. While I can’t work out when I’d choose to listen to it again, Perverts is distressingly exquisite. Repeated plays guarantee sonic Stockholm syndrome.
  4. Jan 8, 2025
    76
    Whether you’re feeling unnerved or oddly comforted, Perverts is an album that, in its all its strange and cryptic ways, demands you feel something.
  5. Jan 13, 2025
    70
    It’s a boundary-pushing work that, depending on the listener, could be considered either powerfully engrossing or deeply alienating.
  6. Jan 7, 2025
    70
    Taken on its own, in an era where most artists make albums a third of its length, the EP feels like a daunting endurance test. But the deeper you dig into Perverts and Ethel Cain's world, the more rewarding the experience.
  7. Jan 6, 2025
    60
    The majority of its running time is taken up by lengthy tracks that sound remarkably like they could have been released on a tiny cassette label in the early 80s, part of the deep underground wave of esoteric post-industrial music effectively spawned in part by Throbbing Gristle.

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