Ethel Cain announces second album ‘Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You’ and biggest tour yet for 2025 – including UK dates

Ethel Cain has announced her second album, ‘Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You’, and her biggest tour yet for 2025, which includes dates in the UK.

The singer – real name Hayden Anhedönia – will be releasing her second full-length in August, which has been billed as a prequel to her 2022 debut album ‘Preacher’s Daughter’.

Cain’s upcoming album is titled ‘Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You’, and its announcement coincides with her birthday today (March 24).

“Before everything, there was you. 1986, the year everything changed forever,” Cain wrote on Instagram alongside the announcement.

She will also be going on tour, which is set to be her biggest to date. She will play in venues including London’s Eventim Apollo, Paris’ L’Olympia, New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, and Berkeley’s Greek Theater.

The tour starts on August 12 in the USA, with the first show in Seattle, before making its way across North America until September 20, when it closes the American leg in Chicago. It will stop in cities including Toronto, Atlanta, Houston, and Vancouver.

From October 2, Cain will be taking her album to the UK and Europe – starting in Manchester. It will then make stops in cities including Paris, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Milan – before concluding the European leg in Lisbon on November 11.

Presales begin Wednesday, March 26 at 10am local time with tickets on sale to the public Friday, March 28 at 10am local time. You can buy UK tickets here and US tickets here.

Ethel Cain’s 2025 UK tour dates are:

OCTOBER 
2 – Manchester, England – O2 Apollo  
4 – Glasgow, Scotland – O2 Academy Glasgow  
9 – London, England – Eventim Apollo  

NME awarded her latest project ‘Perverts’ four stars in a review. It reads: “Casual fans may not last even three minutes. But for those who are willing to sit with its discomfort, ‘Perverts’ reveals hidden depths – the same way that eyes need time to adjust to low light. What it reflects is in the eye of the beholder.”

In other Ethel Cain-related news, she made headlines this year after sharing her thoughts on the high-profile murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson after he was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel in December 2024.

The killing led to a manhunt that lasted several days, with police eventually arresting Luigi Mangione, who was found carrying a three-page manifesto in which he criticised the American healthcare system. Cain expressed frustration with the healthcare system and said that while she wasn’t being “reactionary”, violence was “sometimes” the answer. “It’s simple,” she wrote. “You make them fear for their lives and hit them in the only place they hurt or nothing will ever get done.” She signed off the Instagram post with the hashtag “KillMoreCEOs”.

She was then met with a surge of backlash and criticism, mainly from conservatives and the right wing. Fox News even called for a boycott of the musician because of her “terrorist” and “depraved” comments.

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