An English indie-folk trio 'Daughter'
Hello Guyss! Like every week I always do, I'm gonna talk about the indie band as usual. This week will be the indie-folk trio Daughter from London, England.
Daughter is an English indie folk band formed in London, England in 2010. The band consists of a singer 'Elena Tonra', Swiss-born guitarist 'Igor Haefeli' and French drummer 'Remi Aguilella'.
Lead by North London native 'Elena Tonra', they were formed in 2010 after the addition of Swiss-born guitarist 'Igor Haefeli' and drummer 'Remi Aguilella' from France. They have released four EPs, three singles and three albums, and are currently signed to Glassnote (North America) and 4AD (Europe). After playing the local London circuit, they toured supporting Ben Howard around Europe and have since played headlining tours around North America, Europe and Australia.
Of Irish–Italian parentage, Elena Tonra was raised in Northwood, London, with her older brother, Kieran. Through her Dublin-born grandfather, she experienced traditional Irish music from an early age. Her interest in music began when she received a copy of the album Grace by Jeff Buckley.
Tonra began her career in music, performing acoustic shows under her own name around London. Haefeli attended one of the acoustic shows that Tonra was performing and found that she had this power which drew everyone in. Originally from Neuchatel, Haefeli also attended London's Institute of Contemporary Music Performance where he met Tonra during a songwriting course. They began performing together with Haefeli adding electric guitars. After their first demo started word of mouth on the band, Daughter self-released their debut EP, 'His Young Heart', on 20 April 2011, recorded in Haefeli's bedsit. Later that same year, they released another EP, The Wild Youth, on 2 October through artist-led Communion Records. The latter EP earned praise from British website For Folk's Sake who described Daughter as "one of the unique sounds in the pop landscape today." BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens also invited them to perform a Maida Vale Session for his show.
Tonra and Haefeli became romantically involved and the guitarist insisted that "we keep our couple lives and our band life separate because I don’t want Elena to stop saying things in her songs that are personal as songwriters need to be expansive and they need to be unafraid." While Tonra concurred with "Igor doesn’t question my lyrics. He regards what we do as an art form. He certainly doesn’t try to rewrite my words. I never tell anyone what my songs are about, not even him. I feel they are direct enough, anyway. They aren’t especially obscure."
The band released their debut album, "If You Leave", in March 2013. Charting at Number 16 in the UK, it was also received favorably in the press; "An album as beautifully conceived as If You Leave is one you follow from start to finish, riveted by the story it weaves and the emotion it bleeds."
Daughter also won Independent Album of the Year for 'If You Leave' at the 2013 AIM Independent Music Awards in London. The band began a lengthy tour in support of the album and recruited "Luke Saunders" as an additional live-member to ensure the material could be reproduced. As Haefeli explained: "He plays everything we can’t play, which is keyboards, bass and some more guitar. We were really happy with the result. It took quite a while and a lot of rehearsing, but we are really happy with how the songs sound live". The band also use a number of vocal and guitar effects to achieve this sound live.
In September 2014, the band indicated that they had started working on a follow-up at their own studio in London. Haefeli explained, "We've played so many shows that the first album became rockier on stage and we're playing with that dynamic". On April 6, 2015, Daughter announced they would be supporting Ben Howard on a short string of tour dates in the United States.
On 30 September 2015, the band announced that they would release the 10-track album "Not to Disappear" in 2016, while the first single "Doing the Right Thing" was made available as a music video. 'Not to Disappear' was released by 4AD on January 15, 2016, preceded by the music video for second single "Numbers" in November 2015. On July 28, 2016, a music video for "No Care" was released.
And recently, On September 1, 2017, Daughter released their third album, titled "Music From Before the Storm". The 13-track LP, mostly instrumental, was written as the soundtrack of 2017 video game Life Is Strange: Before the Storm.
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