"Doing the Right Thing" Released: 30 September 2015
"Numbers" Released: 10 November 2015
"How" Released: 25 February 2016
"No Care" Released: 28 July 2016
Not to Disappear is the second studio album by British indie folk band Daughter, released on 15 January 2016 by 4AD.[3] In anticipation of the album, a music video for the promotional single "Doing the Right Thing" was released on 30 September 2015.[4] A music video for the single "Numbers" followed in November 2015. The album cover is "The World is Spinning Around", a painting by British artist Sarah Shaw.[5]
Not to Disappear received generally positive reviews from critics.[7]Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club found that Daughter's "brutal lyrical honesty" sets them apart from musical antecedents such as The Cure, PJ Harvey and Beach House.[9]Sonic Seducer said that the band had created a dynamic mixture of indie pop, folk and shoegaze that reflected influences from bands such as London Grammar and Massive Attack.[2] Marcy Donelson of AllMusic called the album "elegant, moving, and often beautiful", as well as sufficiently dynamic despite its reliance on "sound-defining delay, a dark tone palette, and friable vocals".[8]Rolling Stone's Amy Rose Spiegel was more critical, finding that the minimal instrumentation "can highlight the monotony of Tonra's gorgeous, but largely static, vocal phrasing".[15]
^ Jump up to: abVogel, Thomas; Karstedt, Jörn; Reinbold, Kai; Kriegs, Masi; Heymann, Peter; et al. (2016). "Soundcheck". Sonic Seducer (in German). No. 2. p. 68.