Not to Disappear

Not to Disappear is the second studio album by British indie folk band Daughter, released on 15 January 2016 by 4AD.^[3] In anticipation of the album, a music video for the promotional single "Doing the Right Thing" was released on 30 September 2015.^[4] A music video for the single "Numbers" followed in November 2015. The album cover is "The World is Spinning Around", a painting by British artist Sarah Shaw.^[5]

Not to Disappear
Studio album by Daughter
Released	15 January 2016 (2016-01-15)
Recorded	Rare Book Room Studio, Brooklyn, New York
Genre	Indie pop post-punk shoegaze post-rock dream pop[1][2]
Length	47:03
Language	English
Label	4AD
Producer	Igor Haefeli Nicolas Vernhes
Daughter chronology
If You Leave (2013) Not to Disappear (2016) Music from Before the Storm (2017)
Singles from Not to Disappear
"Doing the Right Thing" Released: 30 September 2015 "Numbers" Released: 10 November 2015 "How" Released: 25 February 2016 "No Care" Released: 28 July 2016

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.4/10[6]
Metacritic	74/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
The A.V. Club	B[9]
Billboard	[10]
The Guardian	[11]
NME	4/5[12]
The Observer	[13]
Pitchfork	6.7/10[1]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
Uncut	8/10[16]

Not to Disappear received generally positive reviews from critics.^[7] Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club found that Daughter's "brutal lyrical honesty" sets them apart from musical antecedents such as The Cure, PJ Harvey and Beach House.^[9] Sonic Seducer said that the band had created a dynamic mixture of indie pop, folk and shoegaze that reflected influences from bands such as London Grammar and Massive Attack.^[2] Marcy Donelson of AllMusic called the album "elegant, moving, and often beautiful", as well as sufficiently dynamic despite its reliance on "sound-defining delay, a dark tone palette, and friable vocals".^[8] Rolling Stone's Amy Rose Spiegel was more critical, finding that the minimal instrumentation "can highlight the monotony of Tonra's gorgeous, but largely static, vocal phrasing".^[15]

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Year	Rank
Rough Trade	Albums of the Year	2016	86[17]
The Skinny	Top 50 Albums of 2016	2016	50[18]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"New Ways"	5:25
2.	"Numbers"	4:16
3.	"Doing the Right Thing"	5:14
4.	"How"	4:26
5.	"Mothers"	5:21
6.	"Alone / With You"	4:33
7.	"No Care"	2:53
8.	"To Belong"	4:17
9.	"Fossa"	6:46
10.	"Made of Stone"	3:52
Total length:		47:03

All tracks are written by Elena Tonra and Igor Haefeli.

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
11.	"The End"	5:27
Total length:		52:30

Personnel

Daughter

• Igor Haefeli – production, arrangements
• Remi Aguilella – additional production, arrangements
• Elena Tonra – arrangements

Additional contributors

• Nicolas Vernhes – production
• Joe Lambert – mastering
• David Tolomei – engineering
• Alison Fielding – art direction, design
• Sarah Shaw – paintings

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[19]	26
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[20]	26
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[21]	11
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[22]	53
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[23]	32
French Albums (SNEP)[24]	107
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[25]	26
Irish Albums (IRMA)[26]	30
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[27]	40
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28]	12
UK Albums (OCC)[29]	17
US Billboard 200[30]	80
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[31]	6

Year-end charts

Chart (2016)	Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[32]	190