Music From Before the Storm (National Album Day 2024)

Critically acclaimed London trio Daughter will celebrate National Album Day 2024 with an exclusive yellow recycled vinyl repressing of their debut foray into soundtrack-making, Music from Before the Storm. With this release, fans of Daughter and the Life Is Strange universe can now revisit and physically own the understated yet elemental score in a new form, apart from its highly sought after yet scarcely available RSD 2017 vinyl variant.

Music from Before the Storm’s transportive yet vast and grounded yet ethereal sonic landscape resulted from the band having been tapped to helm an original musical score for Square Enix’s Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, the highly anticipated prequel to the award-winning 2015 first entry, Life Is Strange. With information from game-producers, the band crafted the score in London in 2017, referencing the game script and concept artwork as inspiration amidst their writing process. As a result, the band’s meticulous, world-building instrumentation is a key factor in the game’s storytelling arch, with various elements of their compositions relaying different sides of the lead character’s emotive state during gameplay. As noted by Line of Best Fit upon its original release with the game: “‘Music from Before the Storm is a soundtrack that succeeds in encapsulating a great vastness and emotional depth while retaining a clear sonic aesthetic. Daughter have created a work that is cinematic and captivating.”

Released: October 2024
Cat: 4AD0038LP2 
Label: 4AD

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Tracklist

A1. Glass
A2. Burn It Down
A3. Flaws
B1. Hope
B2. The Right Way Around
B3. Witches
C1. Departure
C2. All I Wanted
C3. I Can't Live Here Anymore
D1. Dreams of William
D2. Improve
D3. Voices
D4. A Hole in the Earth