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Mar 14, 2013Heavy it most certainly is, but Daughter succeed simply by creating phenomenally beautiful music and heart-rending songs.
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Mar 12, 2013If You Leave is staggeringly beautiful from beginning to close, a catharsis that’s both bracing and woozily amniotic.
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Mar 15, 2013An 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.
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Apr 26, 2013These cavernous guitar effects, corrosive beats, and inspiring melodic twists magnify If You Leave, an album with true grandeur and occasion.
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2013The group's debut full-length album picks up where its EP left off. [Mar-Apr 2013, p.91]
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Mar 21, 2013Soaring and swooping in all the right places, there's no denying the gorgeous ethereal shimmer and dizzying demonstrative pull of these songs.
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Mar 18, 2013By turns, If You Leave is word-in-the-ear intimate and mountain-range massive.
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Mar 12, 2013If You Leave is a damaged debut, then, but the way the hues of its bruises blend into each other is wholly hypnotic. It wants to love, again, but has chosen darkness.
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Q MagazineMar 12, 2013There's stark simplicity to Tonra's lyrics that's evocative enough to consistently land emotional haymakers. `[Apr 2013, p.99]
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May 6, 2013What emerges is a fascinating, infinitely bleak break-up album, but one without the scope of Disintegration or the raw, intellectual power of Blood on the Tracks.
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Apr 29, 2013Even if their meditations on heartbreak and death can be overwhelming occasionally, If You Leave proves that Daughter can channel a single mood over the course of an entire album with often exquisite results.
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Apr 29, 2013There are a lot of topic sentences about If You Leave that won’t tell that story--the defiant moment, clearer and less guarded revelation--but it’s captivating to watch Tonra shake off the burden she’s locked herself up with.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 58 out of 63
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Mixed: 2 out of 63
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Negative: 3 out of 63
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