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1. The Virgin
2. The First Supper
3. The Hit
4. The Theatre Goer
5. Our Queens (One is Many, Many is One)
6. The Dead Singer
7. Sweet Georgia Brown
8. The Unattractive, Portable Head
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| Summary: Daughters continue expanding their sonic skullfuckery |
Rhode Island's Daughters have always walked a dangerous line of progression with each album. Their 2003 debut, Canada Songs, took the freeflowing hostility of grindcore legends The Locust and, with a total disregard for taste and common sense, amped up the schizophrenic nature of their tortured dissonance to create what can arguably be seen as one of the subgenre's best releases in the last decade. In 2006 they released their follow up, Hell Songs, and while at times it bared an almost uncanny resemblance to its predacessor, vocalist Alexis Marshall's change from unintelligible banshee wails to clean vocals allowed Daughters to expand on new ways to deliver their sonic skullfuckery.
Enter Daughters, the band's third album. Following the blueprint laid out in Hell Songs, Daughters is a perverted brew of angular dissonance that has Daughters shedding what was left of their grindcore exterior and ascending to a new level of musical haphazardness. Case in point, the songs on Daughters actually feel like songs. Unlike the bottle rocket-like nature of previous Daughters releases, Daughters is developed with a refined sense of focus and personality, giving each track the opportunity to grow into something unique, something eerie, while still retaining its unnacessible yet rewarding nature. As if whining axes and brooding drums weren't enough to build this uneasy tension, Alexis Marshall's wounded utterances sound like the mad ramblings of Elvis Presley as he strained away his final drugged up moments on his porcelain throne, making Daughters not only one of the most jarring, but also one of the most neurotic albums in recent memory.
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couldnt stand canada or hell songs but maybe ill give this a chance
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Boring.
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these guys for some reason remind me of a way less homosexual mindless self indulgence
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ill probably just take ur word for it haha
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Uh... a little short...
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I thought this album was great, good review too.
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@insurrection: most of my reviews are. personal preference.
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yeah I didn't think much of this, but I'll keep listening
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I prefer reading concise reviews anyway, it requires less of an attention span. Nice job mr redsky sir. I like this album a lot.
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Awesome album, very nice review, pos'd.
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Maybe I'm just not "cool" enough to get Daughters.
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I mean you could just not be into the band. Nothing wrong with that.
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I found getting into Daughters pretty easy, it's all in the hip action
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
Uh... a little short...
It's comments like these that make me want to hit people. Since when was there ever a max. or min. placed on word count for reviews? Too much detail always reads like a report or professional document. It's almost like someone telling you the entire story of movie. I would rather just get the drift of an album and then check it out.
Excellent review, you know I'm going to ask if this is something I would be interested in since I love the grind.
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you should definitely try this out, but i think it will be a lot different than what you expect it to be.
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
I'm open to new heavy stuff. I'm listening to the new Sigh record right now and laughing my ass off, what does that tell you?
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this sounds fucking insane
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I'm listening to the new Sigh record right now
that tells me you are a masochist.
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that tells me you are a masochist.
So, so, so bad for my ears. WOW I hate Sputnik sometimes hahahahaha.
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GTFO the both of youse.
Also to be relevant. Good review and token will myspace comment.
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