Daughters

You Won’t Get What You Want IPECAC Rhode Island quartet’s hatchet-burying fourth album.

Having disintegrated acrimoniously following their self-titled 2010 album, that seemed to be that for the nearly men of multifaceted grindcore. Three years later, though, Daughters singer Alexis Marshall and lyme disease-suffering guitarist Nick Sadler dismounted their high horses and set about recording their fourth album, only to dump the dismal results.

Doggedly, Daughters tried again, and from defeat has come victory. Soaring where others plod, they’ve struck gold with a dizzying, multi-layered smorgasbord of sound, which veers from the quiet-loud-quiet sucker punch of Less Sex to the stomach-tightening squelch of City Song, on which drums ricochet like shots in the dark, keyboards are distorted and Marshall’s spoken vocals glide over a cathartic cacophony.

Meanwhile, Marshall channels Birthday Party-era Nick Cave on the Cardiacs-like Ocean Song, and there’s brutal malice in Satan In The Wait and Long Road. Daughters have never sounded so strong and they’ve never got it so right.