Not to Disappear

Not to Disappear
Studio album by
Daughter
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

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]

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

Publication Accolade Year Rank
Rough Trade Albums of the Year 2016
86[17]
The Skinny Top 50 Albums of 2016 2016
50[18]

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

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  2. ^ a b Vogel, Thomas; Karstedt, Jörn; Reinbold, Kai; Kriegs, Masi; Heymann, Peter; et al. (2016). "Soundcheck". Sonic Seducer (in German). No. 2. p. 68.
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  8. ^ a b Donelson, Marcy. "Not to Disappear – Daughter". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  9. ^ a b Zaleski, Annie (15 January 2016). "Daughter finds uneasy comfort in the familiar on a lovely second album". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  10. ^ Partridge, Kenneth (8 February 2016). "Alt-Folkies Daughter Colors Bright Sounds With Shades of Gray on 'Not to Disappear': Album Review". Billboard. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  11. ^ Gibsone, Harriet (14 January 2016). "Daughter: Not to Disappear review – a chilly emotional echo chamber". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
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  14. ^ Segal, Victoria (February 2016). "Girl Power". Q. No. 355. p. 109.
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