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Jan 26, 2016Not to Disappear is shattering throughout: a brooding sound board, crackling guitars, unsettling beats and Tonra buried in there somewhere, documenting unspeakable hurt, graphic and unfiltered.
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Jan 15, 2016Not to Disappear is intentionally difficult to stomach. It finds a dark pit to nestle in and then digs deeper. But few acts could deliver these unceasingly grim details with such majesty.
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Jan 15, 2016At no point does any of the growth feel forced. Daughter could have been forgiven for producing another album like their debut, but they took a brave step in embracing innovation. The beautiful Not to Disappear is their reward, and ours.
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Jan 19, 2016Not to Disappear is everything you could want from a sophomore release. It’s got enough of the debut in it that you’re getting what you came for with a ton of surprises to make sure you keep going on this journey with them from here on out.
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UncutJan 29, 2016Like their debut, Not To Disappear evokes bot the gauzy fragility of Cocteau Twins and the offbeat ingenuity of Kristin Hersh, though this time it cranks up the amps. [Mar 2016, p.72]
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Jan 22, 2016It’s a subtle progression for the trio, the band honing their craft to produce a record that is equal parts compelling as it is isolating.
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Jan 20, 2016Altogether, the record beautifully distills what it means to be human and to experience pain, but with far greater nuance and maturity than their debut.
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Jan 19, 2016Daughter--and Tonra in particular--have elegantly lowered their defences with Not to Disappear. Emotional literacy and gripping theatricality lie behind the wall.
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Jan 19, 2016Not to Disappear adds strong new strings to Daughter’s bow.
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Jan 19, 2016Despite the dark emotions on display, Not To Disappear is the sort of album that can sound oddly comforting, one to which you can gaze out on a bleak and snowy landscape, while musing over January’s travails, and take some sort of solace in. That’s the sort of thing Daughter do so well.
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Jan 15, 2016With Daughter's second album, she's more poignantly present than ever and her suffering is an emotional exorcism we can all find strength in.
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Jan 14, 2016Not to Disappear is made as carefully and beautifully as you would expect--balancing the acts of remaining true and pushing forward. It does this with an air of self-assured calm and the clarity that a few extra years of being alive bring.
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Q MagazineJan 12, 2016If listening to this record feels like eavesdropping, however, what's overheard is emotional dynamite. [Feb 2016, p.109]
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Jan 12, 2016It’s not so much sidestepped the perils of the second album as trampled them, taking the sound that won the band all those packed festival tents and driving it forward, matted and bloodied like Miles Teller at the end of Whiplash, no longer weeping and withdrawn but pulsing and alive. And it’s genuinely exciting to hear.
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Jan 20, 2016Experience may be a cruel messenger, but Daughter’s success comes not from pulling away, but from embracing that. In doing so, Not to Disappear comes out the other side, not beaten and lost but vibrant and alive.
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Jan 15, 2016In Daughter’s world, the distinction between ecstasy and agony isn’t always obvious; in fact, the two are often one and the same. It’s why Not To Disappear demands full attention, and what makes the album such a compelling listen.
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Jan 12, 2016Not to Disappear builds on many of the same themes that dominated 2013’s If You Leave, but with an added layer of universality.
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Jan 12, 2016Uplifted by a striking new force of sound from partners Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella, Tonra once again courageously emerges from the dark with something to impart, the voice for delicate souls pressing forward.
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Jan 15, 2016Altogether elegant, moving, and often beautiful, Not to Disappear leaves Daughter, without question, on the heavier side of the emotional spectrum, but, like the Cure's "Dark Trilogy" 35 years prior, is sure to connect deeply with some listeners and stand out not only among pop contemporaries but among other emotive, textured indie pop.
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Jan 19, 2016For all Not to Disappear’s forward strides, something remains of the debut’s pallor, and with it a niggling suspicion that, despite their commercial inferiority to the xx, Florence and the Machine, and even Foals, Daughter have no spicy condiments for those groups’ bread and butter.
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MojoJan 12, 2016Though arriving with less of cacophonous attack, their crush of distortion and Elena Tonra's swooning vocals is rooted in the same psychedelic heartland. [Feb 2016, p.91]
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Apr 27, 2016Not To Disappear is an intermittently pretty affair with painfully little substance, an album that spends so much time wallowing in its own self-indulgent loneliness that it fails to offer up anything listeners can actually relate to.
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Feb 11, 2016Daughter seem trapped within the confines of their influences.
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Jan 15, 2016The band's stylized, minimal instrumentation can highlight the monotony of Tonra's gorgeous, but largely static, vocal phrasing, as on "Mothers," where she reflects glumly on dime-a-dozen signifiers like the feeling "when your face becomes a stranger's" and unspecified "chemical reactions."
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Jan 14, 2016Apart from the excellent No Care, a track almost Mogwai-like in its fidgety ferocity, Not to Disappear sounds like an expansive cave filled with the echo of its own emotion.
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Feb 1, 2016Every aspect of the album sounds like the full-length equivalent of a Spotify Chill Out playlist: flat, disposable, inoffensive (though “technically-sound”) 2010s muzak.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 61
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Mixed: 10 out of 61
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Negative: 2 out of 61
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