Stereo Mind Game
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Stereo Mind Game is indie folk at its finest.
7mo
80
There is a luscious warmth to this collection.
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9mo
80
On their latest studio album Daughter expand the musical palette with beautiful songs of love and longing.
7mo
80
An album of scope and dynamism, sometimes hushed but tooled for outreach on the urgent Dandelion and baleful Neptune, where a choir lifts Tonra’s sunken vocal.
8mo
80
‘Stereo Mind Game’ truly allows the band to showcase the full spectrum of their sound palette. Some shades warm and familiar, others new and existing, but all of them transcendent.
8mo
80
The moody folk rockers make a welcome return with beautifully arranged songs exploring long-distance relationships and the struggle to be sober.
8mo
80
While Daughter don’t make too many changes to their sound, everything else about this album feels strangely less certain, less assured and yet more optimistic in its ambitions.
8mo
80
With a captivating and carefully created listen, Daughter are well and truly back. If this is what their comeback entails, I can’t wait to see what the future holds for them.
8mo
80
Daughter find a little more hope in the melancholy on their dazzling new album Stereo Mind Game.
8mo
80
This is all very Daughter (and very good).
8mo
80
On their third album, their first in seven years, London trio thrive by wading into the depths of human relationships.
8mo
80
Elena Tonra and co return with a warm, comforting hug of a record that’s well worth the seven-year wait.
8mo
78
To those who were uninitiated in Daughter’s discography, Stereo Mind Game is an excellent entry point to further explore their enveloping arrangements. Here, they incorporate elements from their discography whilst demonstrating that they are moving in a very positive direction with a more developed and intriguing sound.
8mo
70
These musical outliers, combined with hints of hope in connection, offer glacial progress for a band that have always eschewed the pressure for constant new content.
8mo
70
A sense of loss remains pervasive and all-encompassing on the trio’s third album.
8mo
70
Daughter do enough on their third album to prove why their music holds up after such a long absence.
8mo
70
Produced by Tonra and bandmate Igor Haefeli, Stereo Mind Game is an album that sounds like it was assembled with care, as Daughter change things up while remaining instantly familiar.
8mo
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The moody London indie folk trio return with a stripped-back record inspired by long-distance longing.
8mo
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Stereo Mind Game certainly sustains an atmosphere, but it's a brooding and bleak one, and at times the darkness of Daughter's dream pop can feel a bit suffocating.
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7mo
Emotionally captivating!
I've heard quite a bit about Daughter in the indie folk scene, especially they've had 2 Top 20 albums and a breakthrough single in 2013 titled 'Youth'.
The English indie folk trio's third album Stereo Mind Game, which is their first project since 2016, takes on themes of feeling separated from loved ones and from yourself.
I was intrigued by the lead single "Be On Your Way" when it first released in January. It had a melancholic feeling to it, but also ... read more
I came across Daughter not too long ago from my Spotify DJ, and I realized they released an album this year that I missed! So I decided to check it out.
I was excited because from what I've heard, they have this very sad Dream Pop Rock vibe that's exactly my cup of tea, so I was pumped.
And yeah, this project is definitely in my lane, I really like it a lot! Such an eargasmic listen. Definitely helped me calm down before a stressful day at school. I even get little Slowcore vibes here and ... read more
This is what helps to be yourself and enjoy life, an amazing record from one of the best shoegaze bands on the planet. This album raises the level and increases the raised bar.
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What a wonderfully performed cute little dream pop record. There was also rock influences as well but I felt the dreamy production soar through. Vocally this album was a pleasure, truly relaxing and beautiful. There’s some really great tracks on this album that have really great narratives and are written solid. The emotion on this album was expressed very well through these slow moving guitar tracks and this whole album is a wonderful vibe, it’s moving and I find it to ... read more
I think the best way to describe this is simple but beautiful.
The instrumentals are super detailed and intricate, and every single song feels refreshing to hear. Elena's vocals are incredible throughout, and she's really selling the emotion.
The whole idea of "Stereo Mind Game" is also very interesting as a metaphor, and it really resonated with me this year. I often found myself playing the album whenever I wanted to relax at night, or when I had a flash of inspiration to be ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Intro 0:55 | 67 |
| 2 | Be On Your Way 4:04 | 84 |
| 3 | Party 4:27 | 82 |
| 4 | Dandelion 3:51 | 79 |
| 5 | Neptune 5:25 | 82 |
| 6 | Swim Back 4:34 | 81 |
| 7 | Junkmail 4:05 | 73 |
| 8 | Future Lover 4:13 | 78 |
| 9 | (Missed Calls) 1:43 | 66 |
| 10 | Isolation 2:37 | 74 |
| 11 | To Rage 4:45 | 78 |
| 12 | Wish I Could Cross the Sea 3:38 | 78 |
Total Length: 44 minutes
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3mo
To Rage has to be one fo the best songs I've heard this year
soo beautiful and sad :(
soo beautiful and sad :(
Added on: January 6, 2023