Daughter Release “Middle Farm Session” EP.

26 Jan

*Still From “Live At Middle Farm Studios”/Dir. Daniel Broadley.*

Daughter have released Middle Farm Session, a digital only EP containing the audio from their 7-track filmed performance Live at Middle Farm Studios, released in April last year. The session sees the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella return to the intimacy of Middle Farm Studios near Dartmoor, England – where much of Stereo Mind Game was recorded – to perform those songs live for the first time, including the singles ‘Be On Your Way’, ‘Party’ and ‘To Rage’. Watch Live at Middle Farm Studios HERE, and individual tracks from the session can be found HERE.

Their first studio album in seven years, Stereo Mind Game was released in April 2023 and was made Rough Trade Shop’s Album of the Month. Daughter’s only live show to support Stereo Mind Gametook place at the indie retailer’s east London flagship store. The trio’s third studio album features the singles ‘Swim Back’, accompanied by London string orchestra ‘12 Ensemble’, ‘Party’, ‘Be On Your Way’, and ‘To Rage’, which boasts the sonic warmth of a brass quartet accompaniment.

After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, Stereo Mind Game is their most optimistic record yet. In the intervening years since their Ivor Novello-nominated soundtrack Music from Before the Storm (2017), Daughter has moved away from their initial London base – Aguilellarelocated to Portland, Oregon, Haefeli to Bristol, England – and spent time on their own projects (including Tonra’s debut 2018 solo album under the moniker Ex:Re). However, despite the physical distance – further exacerbated by the pandemic – Daughter continued to meet and write together. Perhaps unsurprisingly connection and disconnection permeate Stereo Mind Game’s twelve songs, grappling with what it means to be separated from loved ones and from yourself both literally and figuratively. Produced by Haefeli and Tonra, Stereo Mind Game was written and recorded in various locations across the UK and North America.