Since I was first introduced to the brooding music of Daughter in spring of last year, there can be little doubt that the group has certainly begun to pick up steam. Touring through the UK and US the group has begun to make a name for themselves with mainstream listeners through late night performances on Letterman and the like. Wasting no time with their second EP release, I am pleased to say that The Wild Youth is just as heartfelt and musically palatable as the music we first saw from His Young Heart and seems to be only getting better with time.
One of the best heartbreak songs I have heard in a while, “Love” is slow building and heart wrenching. Led by front woman Elena Tonra, Daughter uses electric basses and slow beating drums to create a textured sound that is nothing short of sensuous torture. This effect is only heightened when combined with Tonra’s desperate croons of “Take your hands off him / ‘Cause he’s the only one that I have ever loved / Please don’t find her skin / When you turn the lights out.” Building upon the foundation of soft sadness presented in His Young Heart, the relatable bitterness of “Love” gives The Wild Youth a bit more edge while also contributing to an altogether more developed sound.