Artist
Daughters
Daughters is a music group. Their discography on Gatefold includes 5 records.
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Biography
Daughters was an American Mathgrind (early) / noise rock (recent) band formed in 2002, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, after the break-up of As the Sun Sets. The band's current line-up consists of vocalist Alexis S.F. Marshall, guitarist Nicholas Andrew Sadler, drummer Jon Syverson, and bassist Samuel Moorehouse Walker. Daughters' early material was primarily described as grindcore while their later material has been described as noise rock.
The Arc of Daughters
The pivots — what forced Daughters to reinvent.
The 11-Minute Grind
When they put out Canada Songs on Robotic Empire, they were essentially a hyper-kinetic mathcore unit that refused to overstay their welcome. The entire record is a blur of feedback and blast beats that clocks in shorter than a lunch break. You hear the frantic energy of the Providence noise scene bleeding through every track, prioritizing raw friction over any sense of melody or structure. It was a localized explosion that put them on the map as the most volatile band in the underground.
The Providence Swerve
The shift came when they signed to Hydra Head and let the Birthday Party influence take over the steering wheel. On Hell Songs, the speed dropped and the theatricality went through the roof, replacing the grindcore squall with an Elvis-from-hell vocal delivery. This was the moment they stopped trying to be the fastest band in the world and started trying to be the most unsettling. The instrumentation became jagged and intentional, utilizing negative space and weird tuning to create a sense of genuine dread.
The Dead Years and the Resurrection
After a self-titled record that nearly broke them, the band went dark for eight years before resurfacing with You Won't Get What You Want on Ipecac. They traded the spindly guitar antics for massive, industrial-weighted slabs of sound that felt like being crushed by a slow-moving glacier. Working with Andreas Magnusson, they focused on repetitive, punishing loops and a cinematic scale that made their earlier stuff look like a toy. It was the sound of a band finally growing into their own ugliness and finding a massive audience for it.
Influences
- The Birthday Party — Alexis Marshall has explicitly cited Nick Cave's unhinged vocal performance on Junkyard as the blueprint for his own shift in style. You hear it in the way he started drawling and yelping instead of just screaming. It's that same sense of a frontman on the verge of a total psychological collapse.
- The Jesus Lizard — The band toured with David Yow's crew during their comeback and have constantly referenced the rhythmic tension of Duane Denison's guitar work. That 'stuttering' guitar feel on records like Goat is the DNA for Nick Sadler's precision-engineered chaos. It’s about the rhythm section holding a groove while the guitar tries to saw the song in half.
- The Locust — In the early 2000s, Daughters were inseparable from the Three One G scene and the spastic, costume-heavy grindcore pioneered by Justin Pearson. The short song lengths and 'blink and you'll miss it' aggression of their debut are a direct result of that San Diego-to-Providence noise pipeline. It was all about the speed of the attack.
- Swans — The later, more industrial-leaning Daughters material owes a massive debt to Michael Gira’s obsession with punishing repetition. You can hear the Filth-era slog in their more recent tracks where a single, ugly riff is hammered into the ground for six minutes straight. It’s music as an endurance test.
- Einstürzende Neubauten — Nick Sadler has discussed using non-traditional textures and treating the guitar like a piece of industrial machinery rather than a melodic instrument. The clanging, metallic percussion and sheer sonic debris of early Neubauten records like Kollaps informed the 'scrap metal' sound of the band's middle period. They aren't playing chords; they're making an assembly line malfunction.
Discography
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