Daughter is my Medicine

I have this really bad tendency to sorta 'hide' bands I really like, sometimes. The furthest I'll go is sharing songs with my closest friends and since we're being honest, I share them on Facebook to get points for having awesome taste in music although I'm pretty sure out of 500 friends, only 2 will listen.

I'm an attention whore who won't admit it, there I said it.

Presenting DAUGHTER, a band I've feverishly 'hid' for 2 years. They've accompanied me through 2 heartbreaks and a period of time when I was actually pretty content but sought reasons to be miserable because I'm masochistic like that. Source of inspiration for my numerous high-waisted shorts and leggings ensembles and the sole reason I've started learning the guitar.

(No, it's not because I had a revelation that I was grossly untalented and needed at least SOMETHING. No, no.)

There's a common misconception that Daughter is just made up of Elena since well, she's a she and daughters are shes. Daughter's actually made up of three people: Elena, her equally talented boyfriend Igor and Remi, a drumming juggernaut.

 I was first acquainted with them through Youth, this gorgeous piece that starts out slightly folk and transcends into rushing drum beats while Elena's lovely voice and the bass [bassline? I'm not good with music terms D:] melt together into an unwaveringly strong combo of hopeless yearning and umm, pain. Pretty sad lyrics for a song that sounds upbeat enough.

Righto. So after falling in love with Youth, I moved onto the entirety of His Young Heart EP and The Wild Youth EP. Candles and Love were played repeatedly for 7 months, I kid you not. You can guess how ecstatic I was when their album, If You Leave was announced.

MORE music to accompany me crying myself to sleep at night? GIMME.

I suppose at this point you probably think the only reason I'm listening to Daughter is because I've pretty much sold my soul to the gods of heartbreaks and anxiety. Far from that, I listen to them because essentially, they're talented and make good music. Music that yes, some may call sombre, dull or repetitively sad, but nonetheless music that makes me FEEL.

The type that doesn't leave a superficial impression but one that shakes your bones. The type where each song is consciously associated with a distant memory whenever you listen.

Yep, post-heartbreak musical goldmine.

But I digress! Their live performance at KEXP is brilliant enough to make you love them if you're a bit lazy to give all songs a listen. Unsurprisingly, they sound amazing live. Pay special attention to Smother, YOU'LL KNOW. YOU'LL DEFINITELY KNOW.

Chillstep remix of Youth.

In the spirit of pimping out my favourite band, here's a cover of Get Lucky that a Youtuber described as :

""Get Lucky" by Daft Punk: your basic nu-disco "up with our glasses, down with our pants" song.

"Get Lucky" by Daughter: creepy-as-hell story of a confused woman being led through a noisy, crowded club in a roofie haze"