Not to Disappear

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
Studio album by
Released15 January 2016 (2016-01-15)
RecordedRare Book Room Studio, Brooklyn, New York
Genre
Length47:03
LanguageEnglish
Label4AD
Producer
Daughter chronology
If You Leave
(2013)
Not to Disappear
(2016)
Music from Before the Storm
(2017)
Singles from Not to Disappear
  1. "Doing the Right Thing"
    Released: 30 September 2015
  2. "Numbers"
    Released: 10 November 2015
  3. "How"
    Released: 25 February 2016
  4. "No Care"
    Released: 28 July 2016

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.4/10[6]
Metacritic74/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [8]
The A.V. ClubB[9]
Billboard [10]
The Guardian [11]
NME4/5[12]
The Observer [13]
Pitchfork6.7/10[1]
Q [14]
Rolling Stone [15]
Uncut8/10[16]

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]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeYearRank
Rough TradeAlbums of the Year2016
The SkinnyTop 50 Albums of 20162016

Track listing

All tracks are written by Elena Tonra and Igor Haefeli

No.TitleLength
1."New Ways"5:25
2."Numbers"4:16
3."Doing the Right Thing"5:14
4."How"4:26
5."Mothers"5:21
6."Alone / With You"4:33
7."No Care"2:53
8."To Belong"4:17
9."Fossa"6:46
10."Made of Stone"3:52
Total length:47:03
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."The End"5:27
Total length:52:30

Personnel

Daughter

  • Igor Haefeli – production, arrangements
  • Remi Aguilella – additional production, arrangements
  • Elena Tonra – arrangements

Additional contributors

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[19]26
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[20]26
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[21]11
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[22]53
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[23]32
French Albums (SNEP)[24]107
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[25]26
Irish Albums (IRMA)[26]30
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[27]40
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28]12
UK Albums (OCC)[29]17
US Billboard 200[30]80
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[31]6

Year-end charts

Chart (2016)Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[32]190

References