Daughter release Middle Farm Session, a digital only EP containing the audio from their 7-track filmed performance Live at Middle Farm Studios, released in April last year. The session sees the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella return to the intimacy of Middle Farm Studios near Dartmoor, England – where much of their 2023 album Stereo Mind Game was recorded – to perform those songs live for...
Daughter release Stereo Mind Game, the new album from the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella. Their first studio album for seven years, the release features singles ‘Swim Back’, accompanied by London string orchestra 12 Ensemble, ‘Party’, a track that recounts the place that Elena Tonra got to before deciding to give up alcohol, and ‘Be On Your Way’, a longing but resilient song about an enduring...
Daughter share another single ‘Swim Back’ from their upcoming album Stereo Mind Game, out on 7 April. Elena Tonra isn’t a keen swimmer, but oceans pervade Stereo Mind Game. On ‘Swim Back’, deep feeling comes from the bows of the 12 Ensemble, the London-based string orchestra, arranged by Haefeli, and orchestrated by Josephine Stephenson. The track is accompanied by another Tiff Pritchett-directed video. Stream / Purchase ‘Swim Back’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Stereo Mind Game here.
Daughter share new single ‘Party’ from their upcoming album Stereo Mind Game, out on 7 April. The release is the second outing from the new record, following the recently released single ‘Be On Your Way’. Returning with their first studio album for seven years, Stereo Mind Game is a new chapter for Daughter, the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella. The longing to close physical distances has seeped into many of the tracks on the album, yet ‘Party’ recognises that...
Returning with their first studio album for seven years, Stereo Mind Game is a new chapter for Daughter. To be released on 7 April, the group’s third record follows Not to Disappear (2016) and soundtrack Music from Before the Storm (2017). After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella present their most optimistic record yet. The album’s lead single ‘Be On Your Way’ is a longing but resilient song...
Elena Tonra of Daughter resumes her Ex:Re moniker to present a reinterpretation of her debut solo album. Ex:Re with 12 Ensemble, released digitally on 19th February 2021, is a collaboration between Tonra, classical composer Josephine Stephenson and one of the UK’s leading string orchestras, 12 Ensemble. Originally released in 2018, Ex:Re (pronounced “Ex Ray” and meaning “regarding Ex”) laid bare Tonra’s unfiltered internal monologue after the end of a relationship. Containing her most personal lyrics to date and brought into being with the help of Stephenson and producer/drummer Fabian Prynn, Ex:Re struck a chord with the broken-hearted...
Elena Tonra, guitarist, vocalist and lyricist of Daughter, has announced details of a solo project. Running parallel to Daughter, she’s assumed the pseudonym Ex:Re (pronounced ex ray) for her eponymously-titled debut solo album, a deeply personal record released digitally this Friday 30th November. Tonra’s candid solo songs document the time after a relationship ended and are written like unsent letters to herself and others. Taking on a creative moniker, she...
Daughter have released the exquisite live reworking of single ‘All I Wanted’. Watch the single’s stunning companion video, directed by Simon Lane below! Led by the band’s vocalist and lyricist Elena Tonra alongside a string quartet and all-female vocal quartet, the audio was captured in one seamless take in Peckham’s Asylum Chapel, with arrangements composed by Josephine Stephenson. Music from Before The Storm has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award,...
Record Store Day is just around the corner, tomorrow in fact! With a host of special events, acts, prizes, and so forth coming from records stores across the Country, and globe, so to speak. Find our special releases for Record Store Day 2018 below, along with some special in-store performances: Courtney Barnett Sunday Roast/City Looks – Pretty 12″ Featuring a brand new track ‘City Looks Pretty’ – about life on the road –...
Daughter have released Music from Before the Storm, an original musical score with Square Enix’s new game Life Is Strange: Before The Storm. Created in London earlier this year, this is Daughter’s first experience working on an original soundtrack. Listen to first single ‘Burn It Down’ below! BEFORE THE STORM is the prequel to LIFE IS STRANGE. It was a boundary-breaking videogame, with principal characters drawn from real life facing everyday...
Daughter has unveiled a partnership with SQUARE ENIX®, to create an original musical score for their new game LIFE IS STRANGE: BEFORE THE STORM™. The entire soundtrack entitled Music from Before the Storm will be released digitally on Friday 1 September 2017. The game also includes three songs from Daughter’s back catalogue. BEFORE THE STORM is the prequel to LIFE IS STRANGE. It was a boundary-breaking videogame, with principal characters...
