Preacher’s Daughter

the take

before listening to the entire album, i’ve already known “sun bleached files”, which didn’t get me really interested in hayden’s work, but then i heard “american teenager” and absolutely loved it. that’s why i decided on listening to this album. i found it great, but then got into the lore and changed my mind instantly. the entire got so hard engraved into my mind, that i couldn’t sleep at night for a couple of weeks because i were still thinking about it. the story behind the music is just so entertaining, yet brutal. author’s imagination is amazing to come up with a concept like this. one of my all time favorites. can’t go through a week without listening at least once to “preacher’s daughter”. what surprised me most, is that hayden, is transgender and didn’t go through any vocal operations, yet her voice is so captivating, she sounds like an angel. my favorite songs on the album? “american teenager”, a classic. also “strangers” got me hooked. but the darker turn on the album, which are “gibson girl” and “ptolemaea” are genius songs either. the instrumental ones, especially “televangelism” is just so beautiful. i can’t wait until the release of the next parts of the story - “preacher’s wife” and “preacher’s mother”. i also yearn for the movie based on hayden anhedonia’s universe.