Daughter Announce ‘Music From Before The Storm’ Reissue Out 19 October

London trio Daughter will celebrate National Album Day 2024 with an exclusive yellow recycled vinyl repressing of Music From Before The Storm, available from 19 October. Originally released in September 2017 with a scarcely available Record Store Day vinyl format, Daughter’s understated yet elemental score for Square Enix’s popular game ‘Life is Strange: Before the Storm’ has attracted a devoted following of fans from the gaming community, and has been highly sought after since.

Crafted in London in 2017, Daughter’s third album was the band’s debut foray into soundtrack-making. The result was a transportive, vast and grounded sonic landscape that cleverly taps into the game’s impressive worldbuilding, concept artwork and storytelling arch. The soundtrack was a huge success, nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2018 in the Best Original Video Game Score category, due to Daughter’s “knack for handling some of the harshest of subject matters with sensitivity and beauty… that seems to fit perfectly with the mix of chaos and normality that surrounds the narrative of ‘Life is Strange’” (DIY).

‘Life is Strange: Before the Storm’ was the highly anticipated prequel to the BAFTA award-winning narrative driven game released in 2015, ‘Life is Strange’. News of the collaboration between Daughter and Square Enix for the new game was greeted with excitement and the album’s first single ‘Burn it Down’ received widespread critical acclaim.

Praise for Music From Before The Storm

“Daughter get set to release what I think is its best album yet…”
Robin Hilton, NPR All Songs Considered

“Cinematic and captivating… Music From Before the Storm is a soundtrack that succeeds in encapsulating a great vastness and emotional depth while retaining a clear sonic aesthetic.”
The Line of Best Fit

“The collection is a sprawling, mostly-instrumental fifty minutes that incorporates some of the trio’s darkest forages to date.”
DIY

“It’s an imposing offering: crunching guitar chords, and one of Elena Tonra’s most concise performances to date.”
Clash on ‘Burn it Down’

Formed in 2010 in London by Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella, Daughter rose to success with their first studio album If You Leave in 2013 which debuted in the Top 20 of the UK charts. Their follow-up, 2016’s Not to Disappear, garnered similar critical and popular acclaim and the trio has headlined sold-out shows around the world. After releasing the video game soundtrack Music From Before The Storm in 2017, the band spent time on individual projects. Tonra debuted her solo venture, Ex:Re, in 2018 with a self-titled album recorded in 4AD’s London basement studio. In April 2023, the band returned with their newest album, Stereo Mind Game. After Aguilella relocated to Portland, Oregon, and Haefeli to Bristol, England, the band continued to meet and write together across various locations, and as a result Stereo Mind Game grapples with separation, connection and disconnection, yet remains their most optimistic record to date.

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