Today, 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’, a longing but resilient song about a romantic connection across the Atlantic. 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.

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The longing to close physical distances has seeped into many of the tracks on the album, yet ‘Party’ recognises that in order to maintain relationships with others, we must first make peace with ourselves. The track recounts the place that Elena Tonra got to before deciding to give up alcohol. This theme was visited before in Tonra’s writing yet is returned to on ‘Party’ after some distance and from a position of clarity: (“I fear the time wipe out / for fear that I’d forget / the worst night of my life / or even worse, the best”). The track is accompanied by another Tiff Pritchett-directed video.

Connection and disconnection permeate Stereo Mind Game’s twelve songs literally and figuratively. In the intervening years since the Ivor Novello-nominated Music from Before the Storm (2017), the band has moved away from their initial London base – Aguilella relocated to Portland, Oregon, Haefeli to Bristol, England – and spent time on their own projects (including Tonra’s debut solo album under the moniker Ex:Re in 2018). However, despite the physical distance – further exacerbated by the pandemic – Daughter continued to meet and write together. Produced by Haefeli and Tonra, Stereo Mind Game was written and recorded in various locations including Devon, Bristol and London, England, San Diego, California, and Vancouver, Washington.  

For the first time, Tonra’s is not a lone voice. Haefeli lends vocal lines on ‘Future Lover’ and ‘Swim Back’ and on ‘Neptune’ a choir appears. Voice notes from friends and family feature on ‘Wish I Could Cross The Sea’ and ‘(Missed Calls)’. London-based string orchestra, 12 Ensemble, feature throughout the album, with orchestration by Josephine Stephenson, and a brass quartet brings warmth to ‘Neptune’ and ‘To Rage’.  

While Daughter’s previous work found power in emotional honesty, Stereo Mind Game welcomes opposing feelings. “It’s about not working in absolutes,” Haefeli says. 

Stereo Mind Game is released on 7 April and will be available digitally, on CD, cassette and on standard eco-black, eco-mix colour (indie retail only) and green (Rough Trade exclusive) vinyl formats. 

Daughter - Stereo Mind Game
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1. Intro
2. Be On Your Way 
3. Party 
4. Dandelion 
5. Neptune 
6. Swim Back 
7. Junkmail 
8. Future Lover 
9. (Missed Calls) 
10. Isolation 
11. To Rage 
12. Wish I Could Cross The Sea