When a group like Daughter, latently immersed in melancholy longing, deals with a topos typical of a pandemic, such as the local separation from loved ones, this does not necessarily suggest that dances of joy have become music. And yet, STEREO MIND GAME, their first album since 2016, sometimes emits a light that has never been seen before in this form.
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The The xx soundalike “Be On Your Way”, carried by strings and synths, provides a way out of the darkness right at the start, which Daughter then follows, sometimes with well-known means, sometimes with unfamiliar ones. Of course, there is still this penchant for the ethereally reverberating dream-pop euphony, which is inherent in Elena Tonra’s voice, which is as delicate as it is enraptured.
But it gets exciting when Daughter bring their versatility to bear. “Party”, produced dryly in the seventh harmony heaven of indie rock, the neon-gold chugging and surging spoken-word indietronica of “Junkmail” or the filigree, skeletonized indie-folk miniature “Isolation” are representative of a band which, despite all the variation, has noticeably found its center.
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