[Igor, guitar]? Does he know what your songs are about? Does anybody? Not many people no. I suppose what I want to tell is in the song, I don’t really feel like I’ve ever needed to explain further. But no, it’s not weird playing in a band with Igor; we keep our music separate.
Tere’s a question from the film Almost Famous that that I’ve always wanted to ask someone, and you seem like the perfect person, so here goes: “Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song? Do you have to be in love to write a love song? Is a song better when it really happened to you?” I personally think so. From my experience the best songs that I write are those that are the most truthful. So for me yeah, I definitely have moments of ‘down time’ in terms of mood, and I think that’s when I write the most; when I’m not feeling so great.
Is someone like Laura Marling,
from the folk stuff by anything. Comparisons are funny; the human brain likes to file things in certain places, and sometimes it’s nice cause you get compared to people that you like. I suppose it’s just a slight ego trip, even though I don’t think I’m massively egocentric! You wish you were completely unique, but I don’t think anyone is really, apart from maybe Bjork, she’s really out there.
Musos use phrases like ‘haunting’, ‘ethereal’ and ‘achingly beautiful’ to describe you a lot, do you like that praise? I don’t really like reading too much [laughs] It’s really lovely when people say things like that about our music, it’s really complimentary, but I try not to read what people say in reviews. Tey can completely bum you out, or do the reverse and make you feel really wonderful, but that’s shit as well cause you get lazy and you just think you’re great [laughs] I like being very pessimistic and working hard, I never feel like I’m good enough anyway…
People connect to it cause
everyone gets fucked over by someone at
some point in their lives.
stuff like that, so I guess that’s pretty relatable to everyone; people connect to it cause everyone gets fucked over by someone at some point in their lives.
who’s also playing Latitude, an inspiration? Yeah she’s great. Her lyrics are beautiful, I think they’re just poetry, she’s really cool. In terms of influences though, as much as I really like her work, throughout my childhood I felt more inspired by male songwriters, which is weird. I write about very personal things so people might assume I was into female singers, but no, generally men! [laughs]
Did comparisons to other female artists inspire your shift away from solo acoustic music? Not necessarily, no. We were always on the path to where we’re going now; we always wanted to create music that had loads of elements to it, so weren’t actively pushed away
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My ex-girlfriend introduced me to your band, so it’s amazing how differently I hear your music now compared to how I did a few months ago. You manage to appeal to both incredible happiness and deep sadness though, and that’s an incredible thing. Did you always intend to write music that was so relatable? Tat’s really lovely what you’ve just said, that’s really nice… but no, not really. I suppose I never really thought about it too much, I think it’s just my style of writing. I can write songs better about relationships and
If I was in a position like yours I’d be torn between wanting great success, but also wanting to stay as someone’s favourite little band, does that ever cross your mind? Yeah, in a way. I suppose things have to happen naturally, so whatever happens happens, but I’m reallyhappy with where we are now. I can’t really believe the amount of people that already listen to us, so for me it’s great, I’m good, I’ve cracked it! [laughs] I just feel that where we are now is great, we’re recording an album right now, and if the people who’ve liked us so far like the new stuff then that would just be amazing. I don’t really have any expectations, I never have. We recorded the very first E.P [His Young Heart, 2011] because we wanted to, not because we thought anyone would listen to it. I think we need to kind of have the same mentality for the album; make something that we want to make, and if people enjoy it then that’s wonderful. We need to make it from the heart, not because we have to.
Can we expect the album to be more leftfield, more atmospheric? Yeah, at the moment we’re experimenting and that’s how we’re working; we’re trying to find out where the songs are going ourselves. I think it’s going to be pretty experimental, which I’m excited about; hopefully you’ll like it too.
Alex Trossell
Daughter perform as part of the Latitude Festival line-up from 12th – 15th July. For tickets, go to
www.latitudefestival.co.uk. Read the full version of this interview on
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