If you like Florence and The Machine then I can guarantee that you will enjoy Daughter, a band from London that consists of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli, and Remi Aguilella. This trio released their first EP, His Young Heart, in 2011 and followed it with another EP, The Wild Youth, which came out later that year. Their debut album, If You Leave, came out in 2013 and has become one my go-to records on chilly fall evenings.
I first heard Daughter when I came across a solo acoustic version of their song Peter performed by Elena Tonra. At the time I had started to teach myself guitar and this song was one of the first pieces I mastered. Daughter has the same spacey, echoing feel that Florence and The Machine creates, but with Tonra’s soft voice the music is less in your face and more soothing. Tonra’s lyrics are captivating and carry a feeling of sadness supported by her unique melancholic voice. This is seen a lot in Youth, one of my personal favorite songs. Tonra sings about “Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong” and dealing with the emptiness that someone else can leave inside you when they leave. Daughter is very poetic with their lyrics which, being a poet myself, makes the song much more enjoyable. They plan on releasing another EP later this year, and hopefully there will be more records following it in the future.
You can check out their website here, and you can watch the version of Peter that I mentioned here.
Autumn Micketti 