“Jesus can always reject his father, but he cannot escape his mother’s blood.”

Untangling the dark web of religious trauma in Ethel Cain's debut record, Preacher's Daughter.

There’s a line from a Marina and the Diamonds song that I think about when I sit down with Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter – in a bonus track from her concept record Electra Heart, Marina says, “we don’t own our heavens now, we only own our hell.” It’s a statement about how the only things we can truly take ownership of in this life are perhaps our gre…