-
10.0
52246
10.0 |
State
Has the potential to be a demanding listen, but one that will have you pressing play again the second the final track smoulders to a close
Read Review
-
10.0
52253
10.0 |
musicOMH
One of the most stunning, and emotionally captivating records you’ll ever hear
Read Review
-
10.0
52411
10.0 |
Entertainment.ie
Heartbreak has never sounded quite as blissful as this
Read Review
-
9.5
52123
9.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Picking out high points is pointless: it’s the whole damn album, from beginning to close, and there is quite genuinely not a weak moment
Read Review
-
9.0
52235
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
The last record to offer a similar combination of majestically desperate songs and almost bruising intimacy so well was ‘The Bends’
Read Review
-
9.0
52126
9.0 |
The 405
This album will resonate with so many people due to the widespread agony of lost love, with each song analysing a different aspect of the fallout
Read Review
-
9.0
52255
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
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 bleed
Read Review
-
8.5
52125
8.5 |
BBC
A damaged debut, the way the hues of its bruises blend proving wholly hypnotic.
Read Review
-
8.5
52458
8.5 |
The Quietus
Its tumbling gamut of doubt, insecurity, fear, anger and loneliness never less than thrilling
Read Review
-
8.0
53326
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Atmospheric and emotionally life confirming, it has to be the most honest album released for a long time, and for that alone, Daughter deserve to be listened to
Read Review
-
8.0
53848
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It’s both a difficult yet compelling debut
Read Review
-
8.0
52385
8.0 |
The Fly
Word-in-the-ear intimate and mountain-range massive
Read Review
-
8.0
52313
8.0 |
The Digital Fix
Delicate and melancholy, it will make you want to sleep with the covers over your head, yet you'll return to its icy chills again and again
Read Review
-
8.0
52128
8.0 |
Q
Haefeli's swirls cocoon Tonra's confessions, giving the songs a Cocteau Twins veneer. Print edition only
-
8.0
52124
8.0 |
The Skinny
The experience is bracing, like plunging into icy Scandinavian waters: lyrically candid and acoustically fresh
Read Review
-
7.0
53914
7.0 |
PopMatters
For an earnestly constructed record such as it is...If You Leave is an album about something far messier
Read Review
-
7.0
53992
7.0 |
All Music
If You Leave proves that Daughter can channel a single mood over the course of an entire album with often exquisite results
Read Review
-
7.0
54184
7.0 |
No Ripcord
A fascinating, infinitely bleak break-up album
Read Review
-
6.0
52243
6.0 |
The Guardian
There is space in these songs but no oxygen, no air
Read Review
-
6.0
52129
6.0 |
Mojo
Tonra dresses her songs in a black haze of reverberated folk picking and muffled percussion. Print edition only
-
6.0
52131
6.0 |
Uncut
Picks up the baton of bleak, post-dubstep songcraft and tiptoes confidently off with it. Print edition only
-
6.0
52320
6.0 |
DIY
While all the elements are there it seems far too eager to drift into not only the background but also into itself
Read Review
-
5.0
52151
5.0 |
NME
Wistful and sad. But over a whole album the endless sorrowing gets a bit much
Read Review
-
4.0
52277
4.0 |
The Observer
Tonra's voice is breathy and sweet and unremarkable, breaking sometimes into a wrenched whisper, that should be heartbreaking but, more often than not, is just a bit grating
Read Review
-