Daughters (album)

Daughters
Studio album by Daughters
Released March 9, 2010
Recorded April 2009 at Machines With Magnets studios in Pawtucket, RI
Genre Experimental rock, art punk, noise rock, post-hardcore
Length 27:55
Label Hydra Head Records
(HH666-195)
Producer Keith Souza, Nicholas Sadler
Daughters chronology

Hell Songs
(2006)		 Daughters
(2010)

Daughters is the self-titled third studio album by American rock band Daughters. It was released on March 9, 2010 through Hydra Head Records.

Background

Recording for Daughters began in April 2009,[1] and the tracking process was finished by June 2009.[2] However, in August 2009, Daughters had abruptly broken up. The situation was described by Alexis Marshall as a "big falling out" stemming from creative and personal differences among band members.[2] Marshall commented on his feelings leading up to the temporary break up in an interview with Decibel, stating, "I got fed up with people and it became too much. For a long time I was just a drunk doing stupid shit, and this band was all I had. Then I changed my life and realized how unhappy I was. It was easy to walk away and stop killing myself for this."[3] The disbandment was never officially announced, and "no one outside of [Daughters] knew" about the breakup.[2] Before the end of 2009, Alexis Marshall and Jon Syverson reformed Daughters as a two-piece band to release their self-titled album Daughters, which had been already been completed by this time.

Daughters is considered the band's most accessible album to date. Previous albums, 2003's Canada Songs and 2006's Hell Songs, featured a comparatively more intense grindcore sound. Vocalist Alexis Marshall also sings instead of screams on the album.[4] Guitarist Nick Sadler experimented with more commercially accessible guitar parts when writing the album. Sadler had grown tired of performing the "dizzying [and] high-pitched" songs from Hell Songs live, and wanted to add "more groove and low-end" to the band's sound. He wrote bigger sounding songs that wouldn't "get lost in a large room," contrasting previous Daughters albums.[5] Marshall was not pleased with the band's new sound on Daughters, citing the fact that it was forced, not natural, and thus less artistic. In an interview with Noisecreep, Marshall commented, "It's so easy to steer it and try to be accepted, and do this because this is what's good, and this is what's going to make our band popular. That's no good. That's not art. That's shit. It's not even shit. It's less than shit. What's less than shit? I don't even know. Trying to be other bands... that's less than shit."[6]

During the time of release, Daughters was thought to be the band's final album.[7] Though the two remaining members of Daughters (Alexis Marshall and drummer Jon Syverson) have no immediate intentions of touring in support of the album or replacing former members, they are working on new material.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AbsolutePunk (84%)[7]
Allmusic [8]
Alternative Press [9]
The Aquarian Weekly B−[10]
Decibel (8/10)[11]
Metal Injection (8/10)[12]
Pitchfork Media (8.2/10)[13]
Sputnikmusic (4/5)[14]

Daughters was met with widespread critical acclaim, with many reviewers commenting on the album's cohesiveness and accessibility in comparison to their earlier work.

Writing for Pitchfork, David Raposa wrote, "...hardcore Daughters lovers will probably have plenty of bones to pick with this album. For everyone else, Daughters is a feast to be savored."[15] Similarly Andrew Magnotta of The Aquarian Weekly said, "Daughters is a straight-ahead, tooth-grinding sprint to no place in particular. You get the sense that the band doesn’t care where they wind up as long as everything along the way is completely devastated."

Track listing

All songs written and recorded by Daughters.[16]

  1. "The Virgin" – 2:03
  2. "The First Supper" – 3:19
  3. "The Hit" – 3:44
  4. "The Theatre Goer" – 3:40
  5. "Our Queens (One Is Many, Many Are One)" – 3:11
  6. "The Dead Singer" – 4:28
  7. "Sweet Georgia Brown" – 3:14
  8. "The Unattractive, Portable Head" – 4:16

Personnel

Daughters personnel according to CD liner notes.[16]

Daughters

Additional musicians

  • Brian Mullen – guest vocals
  • Mike Knives – guest vocals
  • Alexander Barton – guest vocals

Production and recording

Artwork and design

  • Rebecca Adams (Stash Vamps) – album artwork
  • James O'Mara – album layout and construction

References

  1. ↑ "Daughters set to record new album". LambGoat. April 1, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harris, Chris (January 25, 2010). "Daughters Down Two Members After 'Big Falling Out'". Noisecreep. AOL Music. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mehling, Shane (April 2010). "Daughters: Jon Syverson and Lex Marshall keep it in the family". Decibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Red Flag Media Inc.) (#66): p. 32. ISSN 1557-2137. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ Carman, Keith (March 2010). "Daughters Are Different". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ Paul, Aubin (April 29, 2010). "Interviews: Nicholas Andrew Sadler (Daughters/Fang Island)". Punknews.org. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
  6. ↑ Harris, Chris (February 4, 2010). "Daughters Frontman Has Mixed Feelings About New LP". Noisecreep. AOL Music. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Pfleider, Adam (March 31, 2010). "Review: Daughters". AbsolutePunk. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  8. ↑ Henderson, Alex (2010). "Review: Daughters". Allmusic. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  9. ↑ Raub, Jesse (March 5, 2010). "File Under: Avant-Noise Metal". Alternative Press. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ Magnotta, Andrew (February 12, 2010). "Review: Daughters". The Aquarian Weekly. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  11. ↑ Dick, Chris (April 2010). "Review: Daughters". Decibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Red Flag Media Inc.) (#66): p. 73. ISSN 1557-2137. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  12. ↑ Hartmann, Graham (March 13, 2010). "Review: Daughters". Metal Injection. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
  13. ↑ David, Raposa (April 27, 2010). "Review: Daughters". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
  14. ↑ Flatley, Ryan (March 29, 2010). "Review: Daughters". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  15. ↑
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Daughters (CD liner notes). Daughters. Los Angeles, California: Hydra Head Records. 2010. HH666-195.

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