If you love your music to come bundled with the feel of sparks igniting the embers of your soul, then the magic that musician Elena Tonra of Daughter weaves from steel strings will have you transfixed.

The close of the year is nigh, yet in the overabundant, over-saturated and overrated annual best-of lists, Tonra’s moniker Daughter is being overlooked with undeserved measure.  I am personally ok with that, but being aware of a best kept secret is tough to not let out of the bag. However, the next great thing to feeling the vibration of stellar music bouncing off my DNA is being able to share it with those I love so I am going to let the sharing commence!

Daughter, who hails from my current hometown of London is the needle in that haystack which must be a part of your music collection. This time next year, scratch that, this time in 3 months, Daughter will be righting the sails of listeners who have sacrificed their souls to dub-step and home brewed remixes. As the world turns its focus to London in 2012, the London music scene will be well represented with the effervescence and magic that is Daughter.

It is rare to come across an artist that you know can move an industry, you can just feel it, your intuition knows it.  Similar to the way Justin Vernon and Trevor Powers gripped their own genre, wrangled with it and broke it well enough to ride and for others to emulate, Daughter pulls the reigns in a similar revolutionizing manner making it all her own.

Daughter instantly lets you in first, mindless of an invitation, and that is all we need to know that we have found an equal counter-balance.  Whether it be with a lover or a friend, sometimes these greatest of relationships happen from not having to worry about introducing ourselves first.  In my life, the strongest memories that have encompassed my core have been through the art of sound and it is sufficient to say, Daughter makes memorable music that rightfully fits on the soundtrack of my life.

Despite coming across Daughter on my own, I was instantly altered by her ability to deliver song after song of beautiful music that delivered more delicate notes than snowflakes falling in the English countryside.  It is rare for an artist to race through the course of your being as quickly as Daughter has.  The resting point of that journey concluded instantly within the heart of my heart, perhaps triggering a minor quake as if to shake my soul back to life.

Lyrically, Daughter rescues you with honest and sweetly violent words that inject you into the realism of the meaning of each song. In particular, these lyrics alone from her track “Candles” are eloquently sung amidst a delicate subtlety that strikes with surrendered devotion:

Daughter is currently touring the UK with Ben Howard and they will be in London performing two sold out shows at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in February. Splurge on your senses and make it to one of her live shows or treat your ears to an everlasting dessert buffet by picking up both EP’s (links below).