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100
Heavy it most certainly is, but Daughter succeed simply by creating phenomenally beautiful music and heart-rending songs.
10y
95
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
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.
10y
90
While Radiohead’s subsequent relationship with guitar music is well documented, on present evidence Daughter are picking up the reins.
90
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.
10y
80
‘If You Leave’ is word-in-the-ear intimate and mountain-range massive.
10y
80
These cavernous guitar effects, corrosive beats, and inspiring melodic twists magnify If You Leave, an album with true grandeur and occasion.
80
With meditations on innocence and responsibility, If You Leave is necessary tonic in more cavalier and restless times.
70
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
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
Daughter have crafted a resonant album, but one that demands to be taken for slightly more than it has to offer.
70
For an earnestly constructed record such as it is ... If You Leave is an album about something far messier.
60
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
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.
10y
50
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.
10y
The soundtrack of the darkest time in my life. Moody, heart breaking, yet comforting at the same time.
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
I've realized that I didn't rate any of the Daughter albums before so here we go. I already forgot how much I love Elena's voice, it's so soothing and relaxing. Instrumentation on here isn't anything special that you haven't heard before but it fits perfectly with her vocal performance. There are many decent-to-good songs on the project but Winter, Youth and Human are by far my favourites. Thanks to Life is Strange: Before the Storm for introducing me to this band.
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
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Added on: January 10, 2013