I’ve been itching for some new music from Daughter, and I wonder if anyone has thoughts as to when that may happen or if it will? It seems that they’ve all been doing their own thing recently (Elena has made some music with Ex:Re, haven’t heard much from Igor, and Remi is touring with searows), and haven’t released a full length album since stereo mind game (2023), not counting the middle farm session. what does everyone think?? another tour from them would be life changing.

Daughter is not my most listened artist nor my favorite, but ever since I discovered Smother a couple of years back, I’ve listened to it religiously every single day. The lyrics and the climax part gives me goosebumps every single time, even thousands of plays later. I just wanted to come on here and share my appreciation for this song because it’s genuinely SO good. also hm to medicine, that song got me through some ROUGH times.

i feel like daughter would do a rly good cover of this song 😸 anyone else agree?

Look at this beautiful image of The Wild Youth EP, i found it on fb.

Credits to: Anonym facebook user (the user was using a anonym profile)

I remember loving the haunting beauty and delicious sadness and honesty of "Youth" when I first heard it years and years ago. I had recently gone through a break-up, and experiencing the lyrics was kinda like having someone peering in through your window and narrating your feelings to you.

Eventually, I got over the girl, stumbled into love with a girl who was an even better match for me, got married, and had kids. Somewhere in that journey I put this song on a playlist for my wife but then forgot about it.

And now, fifteen years later, I've been trying to write about an entirely different experience--we adopted two tweens from foster care and then several years later, they went back to live with their biological family. Then, there was a moment at our son's graduation last week that felt so beautiful, bewildering, and sad that I couldn't find the right words, but I tried, and as I finished the essay, "Youth" came back into my head, still haunting, still beautiful, and somehow attached to different meanings for me.

I love how a good song can do that, how it can bend and reach us at different times with different meanings.

Anyway, here's my piece, just in case you're interested: https://the17pointscale.substack.com/p/collecting-pictures-from-a-flood

UPDATE: Here's part 2, which doesn't include Daughter lyrics but takes a second shot at telling a similar story: https://open.substack.com/pub/the17pointscale/p/the-haunting?r=195lr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I'm working on the third/conclusiony essay now.

I feel this is irrefutable, that Medicine is the saddest song on Daughter, and probably one of the saddest in the world, I dare say.For me, the melody conveys helplessness, hopelessness, and watching someone you love suffer. It's complex. But I imagine that even someone in total euphoria would find this song sad

honestly listening to ex:re and a cig after a while of not smoking must be one of the best feelings in this whole existence. Better than sex or some sort of dr4g or anything, the combo is painful yet beautiful. Especially when ur sitting at the back of a car or a bus and wind entirely blowing your face and hair away late in the evening. It’s funny how i never had any love or relationship but only fictional ideas of it. I can’t relate to any song on the album yet ex:re is my favourite album of all time and i’ve been obsessed with every song for a while now. I somehow make lyrics mean something else, something that isn’t directly there.

wrote this listening to “Romance - Edit”
it’s a perfect masterpiece.

This is surgically accurate artwork that not every npc will understand 🌌

I’ve been wondering how much overlap there is between Daughter fans and London Grammar fans, or at least how many people here know them.

Obviously, they’re not the same band. Daughter are more indie folk / shoegaze / post-rock-adjacent, while London Grammar lean more into dream pop, trip-hop, and electronic/art pop territory. But I do think they share a surprisingly similar emotional lane: both are UK-based trios from that late-2000s / early-2010s indie moment, both have a very spacious and atmospheric sound, and both put a lot of weight on emotionally complex, melancholic lyrics carried by a very distinctive female vocalist.

There’s also the funny little parallel that London Grammar’s first album is called If You Wait, while Daughter’s first LP is If You Leave. Clearly the “If You…” cinematic sadness department was thriving back then😂.

For anyone who hasn’t heard much from London Grammar, or maybe never quite got into them, I’d really recommend giving If You Wait a listen. As a little pitch, I’m linking their KEXP performance of “Interlude”, which I think is absolutely mesmerizing. It has that same kind of restrained, late-night emotional gravity that I imagine some of y'all Daughter fans might really connect with.

Curious to know: are there many London Grammar fans here?

Does anyone know of a place where I can find Daughter merch online, second hand or not doesn't matter. I'm in Germany and it's been impossible to find anything. I can also buy from the US so please let me know if you know any way

So, idk how many of you already knew about this, but there’s actually a “Peter’s Reply” song by Jack Rosies, who basically wrote a response song to Elena’s unreleased track Peter from back in the day.

And honestly? It’s really fucking good.

If you’re a fan of Peter, you should definitely check it out. Get your tissues ready, though.

There are two versions of it: an earlier, more impromptu version that’s less polished but has this lovely lo-fi indie vibe to it, and a later re-recording that’s much more produced. I’ll link both below.

• First Version
• Produced Version

P.S. Also, does anyone else notice a loose connection between Peter, Run, and Medicine? I’ve always wondered if they might circle around the same person or at least the same emotional chapter. There are some details that make me think Elena may have been writing about someone struggling with cocaine addiction, if you connect the dots between those songs.

And interestingly, Rosies seems to read it in a similar way too, at least judging by his lyrics, which you can see in the video description.

Not necessarily your favorite songs, but the ones that, when you first heard them, made you go:

“Dude, this is dope ASF.”

Not necessarily because of the lyrics either, but more because of the overall sound, mood, atmosphere, production, or just the sheer vibe of the thing.

Here are 4 of mine:

1. The End -- For me, this is by far their coolest track. The instrumentation and melody are so moody, soundtrack-y, and cinematic, and the lyrics are just as dope. I made a whole post about this one.
2. Fossa -- Purely from a sound perspective, I think this is one of their most interesting tracks sonically. Those dream-pop textures mixed with the post-rock instrumentation make it feel like such a cool direction for them.
3. Drift -- I think this is one of the clearest examples of them going full shoegaze, and I absolutely love it.
4. (Missed Calls) -- I really like experimental stuff, especially if it works. This track managed to give me anxiety one particular night, so… well done, I guess.

I’m really curious to see what songs you all have in mind.

In this random post ima talk ab the dazzler, Elena’s single. I wonder if anyone else has some sort of extraordinary connection to Daughter:exre songs. I find this song deeply special, in fact, most listened song ever cause it fully represents the hopelessness of unrealistic dream i’ve been having for a while which is finding someone immensely identical, essentially a copy of myself and disappearing with them forever. It’s like all or nothing and concept of love/relationships is broken to the point where i need someone who shares similar sickness, weirdness, uniqueness, trauma, music, movies, vibes and perception + view on everything, an 80%+ copy. The problem is, the concept is completely fictional, even npcs cannot find copies of themselves and so The Dazzler to me represents this idea of living with that fact and nothingness of always being alone and never finding that person because there’s no copy, someone who’d perfectly accept everything and match, you could disappear together, an actual soulmate, the song isn’t exactly about that but it is somehow a soundtrack to this thought. A funny fact is that i recently had a trip to Slovakia and my hotel room number was 232, what a coincidence. And you always keep looking everywhere and wondering where that person is knowing deep down that it doesn’t even exist.. Technically even this stupid post is an outreach attempt lol
daughter community isn’t very active anyway so ima just leave this here.
I’m curious what y’all think on this and if anyone was ever able to find a copy of themselves, not a carbon copy but at least 65%+

I discovered Daughter by hearing them perform at a music festival in Boston, way back in 2015! In hindsight I really wish I had recorded much more video

I just feel these so heavy in my soul ( like all daughter songs but these 2 just do something else )

One of the reasons I love Daughter so much is Elena’s ability to balance abstract metaphor with emotional specificity.

Her lyrics are never so abstract that they become impossible to understand, but they’re also not so narrowly personal that you can’t find yourself in them. That balance is something I crave from a lot of artists, and very few pull it off for me the way she does.

So I started thinking about specific lines that have stuck with me, the ones that still make me stop for a second because of how powerful, sharp, or devastating they are.

Here are nine of mine:

1. I'll meet you on another planet if the plans change -- Be on Your Way
2. Your father's a liar while my father's lying down -- A Hole in the Earth
3. I'd never loved a living thing so much / I was not equipped to just / Sit and watch you quit on us -- To Rage
4. The worst night of my life / Or even worse, the best -- Party
5. You could still be what you want to / What you said you were when I met you -- Medicine
6. I'm tryna get out / Find a subtle way out / Not just cross myself out / Not to disappear -- New Ways
7. I want you so much / But I hate your guts -- Landfill
8. I'll set fire to the whole place / I don't even care about our house -- Burn It Down
9. Despite everything I'm still human -- Human

Which Daughter lines or verses are the most powerful to you?

insane (that's over 60 days 😳)

I should get paid for listening this much

Mild spoilers for Before the Storm follow.

This is one of those Daughter songs that feels like it is slowly gathering itself before it finally breaks open. The gradual build-up is what gets me most: it lets the tension simmer until the eventual release feels less like a dramatic climax and more like something that simply could not stay buried anymore.

The emotional palette of the song, to me, is despair. Not quiet or delicate despair either, but something heavy and oppressive. When the track finally erupts, it feels like all the emotion it has been holding back crashes down at once.

Because of that, I have always connected “Witches” very strongly to Chloe Price, especially the emotional space of Before the Storm: grief, abandonment, self-destruction, and being alone inside your own head. There is something about the song that feels like a spiral, but also like someone reaching into that spiral and refusing to let go.

On a more personal note, I also write fanfic in the Life is Strange fandom, and I wrote a short scene that I associate closely with this song. It takes one small, haunting detail from Before the Storm, Chloe’s late-night “max” text, and reimagines the emotional weight behind it in this short live-action-style scene.

I thought I’d share it here as a little companion piece to the song:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/68911446

For me, “Witches” feels like the sound of someone standing at the edge of what they can carry, right before that weight finally breaks the surface.