Today, Daughter release Stereo Mind Game, the new album from the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella. Their first studio album for seven years, the release features singles ‘Swim Back’, accompanied by London String Orchestra 12 Ensemble, ‘Party’, a track that recounts the place that Elena Tonra got to before deciding to give up alcohol, and ‘Be On Your Way’, a longing but resilient song about an enduring connection that is also undefinable. It also features new single ‘To Rage’, which boasts sonic warmth of a brass quartet accompaniment, introducing a new orchestrated element to the album.
After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, Daughter present their most optimistic record yet. Its songs grapple with what it means to be separated from loved ones and from yourself, yet here, Daughter tend to sorrow by fixing it in time. Doing so makes it more real, like the flower – dried, pressed and remembered – on the album’s cover.
Connection and disconnection permeate Stereo Mind Game’s twelve songs literally and figuratively. In the intervening years since the Ivor Novello-nominated music from Before the Storm (2017), the band has moved away from their initial London base – Aguilella relocated to Portland, Oregon, Haefeli to Bristol, England – and spent time on their own projects (including Tonra’s debut solo album under the moniker Ex:Re in 2018). However, despite the physical distance – further exacerbated by the pandemic – Daughter continued to meet and write together. Produced by Haefeli and Tonra, Stereo Mind Game was written and recorded in various locations including Devon, Bristol and London (UK), San Diego (CA), Portland (OR) and Vancouver (WA).
Recently named Rough Trade’s Album of the Month for April, Stereo Mind Game will be available digitally, on CD, cassette and on standard vinyl formats in eco-black and eco- mix colour.
Daughter – ‘Swim Back’ (Official Video)
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Daughter – ‘Party’ (Official Video)
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ABOUT DAUGHTER:
Formed in 2010 in London by Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella, Daughter rose to success with their first studio album If You Leave in 2013 which debuted in the Top 20 of the UK charts. Their follow-up, 2016’s Not to Disappear, garnered similar critical and popular acclaim and the trio has headlined sold-out shows around the world. After releasing the videogame soundtrack Music From Before the Storm in 2017, the band spent time on individual projects. Tonra debuted her solo venture, Ex:Re, in 2018 with a self-titled album recorded in 4AD’s basement studio in London.
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Daughter – Stereo Mind Game
1. Intro
2. Be On Your Way
3. Party
4. Dandelion
5. Neptune
6. Swim Back
7. Junkmail
8. Future Lover
9. (Missed Calls)
10. Isolation
11. To Rage
12. Wish I Could Cross The Sea
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