If You Leave

Daughter - If You Leave
Critic Score
Based on 22 reviews
2013 Ratings: #324 / 1115
User Score
Based on 460 ratings
2013 Rank: #98
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
musicOMH

Heavy it most certainly is, but Daughter succeed simply by creating phenomenally beautiful music and heart-rending songs.

95
The Line of Best Fit

This isn’t a difficult album at all: If You Leave is staggeringly beautiful from beginning to close, a catharsis that’s both bracing and woozily amniotic.

90
Drowned in Sound

An album as beautifully conceived as If You Leave is one you follow from start to finish, riveted by the story it weaves and the emotion it bleeds.

90
Loud and Quiet
While Radiohead’s subsequent relationship with guitar music is well documented, on present evidence Daughter are picking up the reins.
90
The 405

This album will resonate with so many people due to the widespread agony of lost love, with each song analysing a different aspect of the fallout.

80
Q Magazine
There's stark simplicity to Tonra's lyrics that's evocative enough to consistently land emotional haymakers.
80
God Is in the TV
Atmospheric and emotionally life confirming, it has to be the most honest album released for a long time, and for that alone, Daughter deserve to be listened to.
80
The Skinny

With meditations on innocence and responsibility, If You Leave is necessary tonic in more cavalier and restless times.

80
The Fly

‘If You Leave’ is word-in-the-ear intimate and mountain-range  massive.

80
Under the Radar
The group's debut full-length album picks up where its EP left off.
80
Consequence of Sound

These cavernous guitar effects, corrosive beats, and inspiring melodic twists magnify If You Leave, an album with true grandeur and occasion. 

75
Northern Transmissions

If You Leave is a well constructed record with contrasting elements that weave and ricochet off one another plus Tonra’s vocal is effortless when delivering her damaged lyrics.

70
Sputnikmusic

For the most part of If You Leave, the band succeed at shirking the batshit obsession route whilst still managing to sound interesting, sincere, and rather moving.

70
No Ripcord

Daughter have crafted a resonant album, but one that demands to be taken for slightly more than it has to offer.

70
AllMusic

Even if their meditations on heartbreak and death can be overwhelming occasionally, If You Leave proves that Daughter can channel a single mood over the course of an entire album with often exquisite results.

70
PopMatters

For an earnestly constructed record such as it is ... If You Leave is an album about something far messier. 

60
DIY

While all the elements are there it seems far too eager to drift into not only the background but also into itself, with it turning into musical wallpaper and into one, long indistinguishable track with worrying ease.

60
The Guardian
These songs are atmospheric, but feel calculatedly so, especially set against the overwrought poetry of Tonra's lyrics. "I'm a suffocator," she recognises on Smother: there is space in these songs but no oxygen, no air.
60
Uncut
There's an unwelcome hint of Florence Welch's swollen emotionalism on "Tomorrow," but the surging pop of "Touch" is more successful.
60
Mojo
These fine-spun talents are too frequently suffocated by the album;s production, which ignores the songs' subtler details in favour of something more epic.
50
NME

There’s beauty here in heaps, and by leaning a bit less hard on the heartbreak pedal, turning down the reverb and letting that wild youth out a bit more, they can become a Daughter we’re truly proud to call our own.

40
The Observer
Tonra's voice is breathy and sweet and unremarkable, breaking sometimes into a wrenched whisper, that should be heartbreaking but, more often than not, is just a bit grating.
Host
90

Guys... I'm not feeling too good ╯︿╰

caitofgoodhope
82

The soundtrack of the darkest time in my life. Moody, heart breaking, yet comforting at the same time.

ultravox
100

na real eu não pretendia fazer review da discografia da banda, mas ouvi Tomorrow, que é uma música ótima deste álbum e decidi ouvir o mesmo agora. (sim, estava na minha playlist da yuko)

o álbum é de dreampop, indiepop e artpop, e cara, esse álbum tem um jeito mto peculiar, de como ele se apresenta e o impacto que ele causa ao ouvinte. ele pega vc de um jeito mto íntimo, que se vc deixar se levar vc provavelmente se ... read more

ilikejackwhite
87

Kool (with a k)

Fyriox
90

REVIEW #34 | Daughter - If You Leave (2013)

Damn, what an album !
I discovered this band thanks to some of my friends who showed me the song "Youth", and this song was the click for me to listen to this band !
I listened to this album and OMG, it's sooo pretty, ambient, dreamy, the atmosphere in this album is soo good, i want someone to erase my memory, so i can experience this album again for the first time !
The instrumentation on this album is sooo good ! It's kinda shoegazy ... read more

evrynoiseatonce
84

so sad but so good

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Track List

1Winter
4:41
89
2Smother
4:00
93
3Youth
4:13
94
4Still
3:32
85
5Lifeforms
5:35
87
6Tomorrow
4:39
85
7Human
3:31
83
8Touch
4:25
81
9Amsterdam
4:02
83
10Shallows
6:53
90
Total Length: 45 minutes
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Added on: January 10, 2013