Ethel Cain Prepping Second 2025 Album ‘Willoughby Trucker, I Will Always Love You’

It’s been nearly four months since Ethel Cain dropped her Perverts project in January. Now, the singer-songwriter is ready to show what she’s been doing in the time since then with a surprise new album announcement.

On Monday (March 24), Cain revealed that her sophomore album Willoughby Trucker, I Will Always Love You will drop this August. Serving as a prequel to her critically acclaimed debut LP 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter, the new album’s storyline will take place in 1986 according to Cain’s Instagram, which she calls “the year everything changed forever.”

Alongside the announcement of a new album, Cain also revealed her upcoming headlining tour, the Willoughby Trucker Forever Tour, which is set to kick off this August in Seattle. Hitting major hubs like New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Austin, the U.S. leg of the outing will wind up on Sept. 20 at The Salt Shed in Chicago before heading overseas in October.

After releasing her experimental studio recording Perverts in January, Cain came under fire for a series of posts to her Instagram Stories in reaction to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Johnson, where she used the hashtag “#KillMoreCEOs” and told her fans that she did not intend her post as a joke: “‘Violence is never the answer’ wrong. Sometimes it is.” A number of Fox News hosts called her comments “depraved” and said that listeners should “boycott her.”

Cain, in response to the criticism, said that her comments weren’t political, but steeped in reality: “I find it funny that conservatives try to paint me calling for the death and destruction of multi-billionaire CEOs as some radical ‘woke liberal’ standpoint,” she said. “As if that even has anything to do with politics, especially in this era of surface level circus politics.”

Tickets for Cain’s Willoughby Trucker Forever Tour go on sale on Friday (March 28) at 10 a.m. local time at the singer’s website. Check out the full list of tour dates below: