This might seriously surprise some of you, as I didn’t really attempt to hide my initially less than favorable reaction. However, after spending time with the album, and especially after seeing the material performed live in San Francisco, my appreciation has grown immensely. Daughters yet again reinvent their sound, or at least expand greatly on the direction of their previous self-titled effort, adding elements of no wave and industrial and embracing what I would consider a more minimalist approach. This is everything self-titled should have been, with far better song writing and flushed out ideas that overall feel more complete. The throbbing opener of “City Song,” which initially turned me off with its industrial elements, now seems to fit perfectly before the mesmerizing “Long Roads, No Turns,” and “Satan In the Wait.” The album hits a slower pace with “Less Sex” and “Daughter” (which recall Nine Inch Nails), but they are ultimately much needed breathers from the terrifying intensity displayed on tracks like “The Flammable Man,” “The Lords Song,” “Ocean Song,” and the album’s near-perfect finisher, “Guest House.” The true brilliance of “You Won’t Get What You Want,” however, is not just in the music, it’s the message so artfully embedded in the lyrics of “The Reason They Hate Me” and the album’s title itself: