The one thing that youd be surprised to know about Daughter front woman, Elena Tonra, is that she tends to smile much more than youd suspect. Its a shy and slightly impish grin that tends to be cast down or to the side, but she lets it out and onto her beautifully pale face often. It could just be that over rounds of strawberry beers, in a pub on a spectacularly nice May afternoon in the Crouch End neighborhood of London, anyones liable to smile a bit more, when all of the nervous energy has burned off and the hardest part of the day is in the books. When you listen to Daughter, you dont hear smiles. You hear sullenness and the bleak remains. Oh, its about as gorgeous as it gets, but it devastates you. It makes you need a hug and it makes you want to deliver a hug - or however many it might take to lighten the mood some, to get everyone back on the sunny side. Its nice to walk along those shores for a while though and to soak in all that Tonra...