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Methyl Ethel

Data updated on 2025-07-06 09:09:32 UTC
“Are You Haunted?” asks the title of Methyl Ethel’s fourth album. But it’s more of a rhetorical question. Jake Webb, who adopted the fibreglass-referencing moniker for a bedroom recording project in 2014 and has carried it through the band’s many iterations, already knows the answer. Yes, you’re haunted. We all are, and the real question is: what do we do with our hauntings?

Methyl Ethel has never shied away from themes of memories that overstay their welcome, nightmares or preoccupations that linger in the psyche. But with Webb’s latest longplayer, a more direct and poignant interpretation of haunting takes centre stage: themes of mortality, irretrievable time and heavy presences suffuse the album’s nine tracks. Themes that might make for a sombre listen if it wasn’t for Webb’s knack for exhilarating arrangements, addicting hooks, curious textures and propulsive, syncopated rhythms; elements that add up to a joyous, giddy listen, even if there’s threads of melancholy and anxiety woven through.

It’s an album haunted by the uncertain future, as well as the dauntingly unchangeable past: dearly departed friends, missed opportunities, forks in the road. With upright piano, glitching sound-samples and sanguine beats at the album’s emotional core, it’s a strange and beguiling journey; perhaps Webb’s weirdest, but also most undeniably pop-leaning and danceable record to date.

Total plays

142.7 million
Updated on 2025-07-06

Country

Australia

Monthly listeners

170,825

Followers

125,133

Top Cities

  1. Australia
    26,981 listeners
  2. Australia
    24,711 listeners
  3. Australia
    19,833 listeners
  4. Australia
    13,912 listeners
  5. Australia
    7,003 listeners

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Ruiner
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Idée Fixe
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Rogues
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L'Heure des Sorcières
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Groundswell
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Shadowboxing
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Weeds Through the Rind
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881,986 3:08 2017-03-03
Matters
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All The Elements
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Act of Contrition
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Post-Blue
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No Fighting
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Sweet Waste
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Unbalancing Acts
Unbalancing Acts
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Artificial Limb
Artificial Limb
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Everything Is As It Should Be
Everything Is As It Should Be
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Charm Offensive
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One and Beat
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on your mind ・゚: * ✧・゚: * - Methyl Ethel remix
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New releases

on your mind ・゚: * ✧・゚: * (Methyl Ethel remix)
on your mind ・゚: * ✧・゚: * (Methyl Ethel remix)
2025-03-20
[Methyl Ethel and Annie Hamilton]
Are You Haunted? (Deluxe)
Are You Haunted? (Deluxe)
2023-02-17
[Future Classic]
Brakhage
Brakhage
2022-10-14
[Future Classic]
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
2022-09-16
[Future Classic]
Talk Louder
Talk Louder
2022-07-15
[Future Classic]
Are You Haunted?
Are You Haunted?
2022-02-18
[Future Classic]
Proof
Proof
2022-01-14
[Future Classic]
Frontier Psychiatrist/Dribble (triple j Like A Version)
Frontier Psychiatrist/Dribble (triple j Like A Version)
2021-12-10
[triple j]
Matters
Matters
2021-10-22
[Future Classic]
Neon Cheap
Neon Cheap
2021-04-16
[Future Classic]
Holy Days
Holy Days
2020-06-25
[Remote Control Records]
Hurts To Laugh
Hurts To Laugh
2020-04-10
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Majestic AF
Majestic AF
2020-02-25
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Triage
Triage
2019-02-15
[4AD]
Triage
Triage
2019-02-15
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Trip The Mains
Trip The Mains
2019-01-17
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Real Tight
Real Tight
2018-11-09
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Scream Whole
Scream Whole
2018-09-27
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Everything Is Forgotten
Everything Is Forgotten
2017-03-03
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Everything Is Forgotten
Everything Is Forgotten
2017-03-03
[4AD]
L'Heure des Sorcières
L'Heure des Sorcières
2017-02-22
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Ubu
Ubu
2017-01-24
[Dot Dash Recordings]
No. 28
No. 28
2016-11-04
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Oh Inhuman Spectacle
Oh Inhuman Spectacle
2016-02-26
[4AD]
Cry Me a River (triple j Like A Version)
Cry Me a River (triple j Like A Version)
2016-01-01
[triple j]
Oh Inhuman Spectacle
Oh Inhuman Spectacle
2015-06-05
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Twilight Driving
Twilight Driving
2015-05-13
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Rogues
Rogues
2015-02-24
[Dot Dash Recordings]
Guts
Guts
2014-02-14
[Methyl Ethel]
Teeth
Teeth
2014-02-14
[Methyl Ethel]