New Album Alert : Daughter - Not To Disappear

I don't have many fears but being locked alone in a tight space without light would be on the short list. A deep depression is much like this, it can feel like you are alone, lost, and trapped in a place of darkness with not hope of escape. Daughter's new and second album is an unabashed display of sadness and varying scales of black and grey. Thematically this does not stray far from their debut If You Leave however the music and the production this time around place a magnifying glass to the ripples of quiet gloom and here you have amplified swells of heartache bringing them closer to a post-rock band like Mogwai or Sigur Ros with the voice much like Margo Timmins from from Cowboy Junkies (smokey hush).



My introduction to the band came through the film A Long Way Down and their single "Youth". It seems in hindsight that this match of film to band couldn't have been more appropriate. It is film dedicated to the concept of suicide of what it takes to step back of that ledge to keep on living. If there was a body of music that places you teetering on that ledge, feeling the combination of grief and the weightlessness of leaving it all behind, English band Daughter's catalog is that.

My only complaint is that after two records of heartache going from subtle to a little louder, I would like to hear other colors in the band's emotional pallet. It doesn't matter how gorgeous your hamster wheel is, you are still going around in sad little circles.