Preacher’s Daughter [2xLP]

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On her debut album, the 24-year-old Tallahassee native briefly makes good on her instinct for mass-appeal pop anthems, but most of the 76-minute album dwells on roiling gloom and smoldering Americana.

LikeInbred,Preachers Daughter, Cains full-length debut, places its catchiest pop salvo up front. With its heartland-rock pomp and beaming guitars, American Teenager plays like something offTaylor SwiftsSpeak Now, a taste of the kind of mass-appeal anthems Cain could make if she opted to commit to that route. The rest of the record, though, makes clear she has no interest in that. For the bulk of the albums heady 76 minutes, she turns her back on pop in favor of roiling gloom and smoldering Americana. If American Teenager didnt so efficiently introduce the albums motifsdisenfranchised youth, hard living, and misplaced idealsitd be a complete fakeout.

Pitchfork