PRE ORDER 07 APRIL 2023 lena Tonra isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a keen swimmer, but oceans pervade Stereo Mind Game. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a matter of distance. Daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third record, the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first studio album for seven years, grapples with what it means to be separated, from loved ones and too from yourself. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh it will likely kill me \/ That I must live \/ Without you \/ Because I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t swim,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tonra sings, whisper-like, on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Isolation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a classic Daughter song that basks elegantly in deepest despair. Yet here there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a sense of something beyond despair too. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll compose myself \/ I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get over it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tonra continues. On Stereo Mind Game, Daughter tend to sorrow by fixing it in time. Doing so makes it more real, like the flower \u00e2\u20ac\u201c dried, pressed and remembered \u00e2\u20ac\u201c on the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cover. Daughter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the trio comprising Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella \u00e2\u20ac\u201c formed in 2010. After releasing two studio albums, If You Leave (2013) and Not to Disappear (2016), and the video game soundtrack Music From Before the Storm (2017), they chose to take some time off. But not before jamming together in Los Angeles, in between a support tour with The National and their first headline shows in South America. It was here that a new album started to germinate. Over the next couple of years \u00e2\u20ac\u201c during which they worked on their own projects, including Tonra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solo record as Ex:Re \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Daughter met occasionally to write together in studios in London, Portland and in San Diego, where Haefeli lived for six months in 2019. The record\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s central romantic figure is someone Tonra met out there when she visited from London. They shared a significant connection, but she knew the Atlantic lay between them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this that she sings about on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Be On Your Way\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a longing but resilient song about an enduring connection that is also undefinable. Where previous Daughter songs mourned old relationships, here Tonra is accepting of whatever the future brings. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A friend said to me recently: just because something ends, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean that it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t real,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. Haefeli likens the revelation to the pressed flower image: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still there. It still exists. It grew that spring.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Daughter began recording the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s twelve songs in earnest in 2021. Haefeli, who lives in Bristol, met with Tonra at Middle Farm Studios in Devon. Aguilella, who is based in Portland, Oregon, recorded his drum parts in Bocce Studio in Vancouver, Washington. Haefeli produced a number of the songs, while Tonra produced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Junkmail\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. They co-produced the rest. The longing to close physical distances \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a feeling that only grew during the pandemic \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has seeped into many of these tracks. On \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wish I Could Cross the Sea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we hear voice notes from Tonra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s young niece and nephew, who live in Italy. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153(Missed Calls)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d features another voice note, in which a friend describes a dream. Fed through some modular effects, it becomes glitchy, and haunting. These messages, attempts at connection from loved ones you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re unable to see, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153can pull you out of the well\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Tonra says \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but only if you pick up the phone. When you let others in, beauty can arise. Deep feeling comes from the bows of the 12 Ensemble, the London-based string orchestra, who play on many of the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tracks. Arranged by Haefeli and Tonra, and orchestrated by Josephine Stephenson, their parts were \u00e2\u20ac\u201c fittingly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c recorded at The Pool, a space in Bermondsey, south London, which is a former swimming spot. A brass quartet also brings a new sonic warmth to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Neptune\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To Rage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. And for the first time, Tonra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is not a lone voice. On \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dandelion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which glistens with Haefeli\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chime-like guitars and Aguilella\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rousing drums, Tonra plays call and response with herself. Haefeli leads some vocal lines on the exhilarating \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Future Lover\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Neptune\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a choir appears. These vocalists are the string players of the 12 Ensemble. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of my favourite moments of the record,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tonra says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153when suddenly, the crowd joins. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very lonely song. But even when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve felt the most alone, arms have reached out to me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In order to maintain relationships with others, we must first make peace with ourselves. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Party\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recounts a significant moment: the night that made Tonra realise she wanted to give up alcohol. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a topic she has written about before, but she needed distance to see it clearly. Haefeli borrows her image: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This time you had climbed out of the well,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and were looking back down.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the song she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most proud of, and the one that lends its lyrics to the album title (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some stereo mind game I play with myself\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), which refers to the conflicting voices we all have in our heads. While Daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s previous work found power in emotional honesty, Stereo Mind Game welcomes opposing feelings. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about not working in absolutes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Haefeli says. After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, Daughter have made their most optimistic record yet. 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