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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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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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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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Mar 18, 2013While all the elements are there it seems far too eager to drift into not only the background but also into itself, with it turning into musical wallpaper and into one, long indistinguishable track with worrying ease.
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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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MojoMar 12, 2013These fine-spun talents are too frequently suffocated by the album;s production, which ignores the songs' subtler details in favour of something more epic. [Apr 2013, p.89]
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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 19, 2013Both musically and lyrically, Daughter ain’t half as clever as they clearly think they are (people get serious and clever mixed up a lot, weirdly).
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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, 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.
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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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Mar 18, 2013By turns, If You Leave is word-in-the-ear intimate and mountain-range massive.
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Mar 14, 2013These songs are atmospheric, but feel calculatedly so, especially set against the overwrought poetry of Tonra's lyrics.
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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 18, 2013Tonra'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.
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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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UncutMar 12, 2013There's an unwelcome hint of Florence Welch's swollen emotionalism on "Tomorrow," but the surging pop of "Touch" is more successful. [Apr 2013, p.69]
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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]
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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