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Daughters is the third studio album by American rock band Daughters, released on March 9, 2010, through Hydra Head Records.

Sadler described the writing process of their third album as, "[making] demos for three years at the house and then taking songs, song ideas and some riffs to the practice space to hash them out with Jon [Syverson]. This album really caught up with us. People were getting a little older, the whole band was extremely poor from touring over the years, so life outside the band really caught up with us and it became hard to really do anything. I'm very proud of this record just because we were able to make it, you know? It was a real struggle."

Recording for Daughters' third album began in late April, 2009, and the tracking process was finished by June. However, in August, Daughters had abruptly broken up. After finishing recording for the album Sadler stated he and Marshall got in an argument, resulting in Marshall leaving the band. So the rest of the band decided that put them in a hiatus. Sadler continued with mastering the record and hashing out the artwork and even worked with artist, Dave Fisher, on a trailer video. Stating he "was essentially trying to keep the band alive for who-knows-what" and "hoping [Marshall] would come back or maybe in few years we would start playing again." Eventually Sadler moved to Brooklyn and Marshall decided that he wanted to rejoin the band, but that Sadler should be kicked out, which resulted in the band dissolving even further.

Daughters is considered by critics to be the band's most accessible album to date. Previous albums, 2003's Canada Songs and 2006's Hell Songs, featured a comparatively more intense grindcore sound. Vocalist Alexis Marshall also sings instead of screams on the album similar to the band's previous album Hell Songs.

Guitarist Nick Sadler experimented with more commercially accessible guitar parts when writing the album. Sadler had grown tired of performing the "dizzying [and] high-pitched" songs from Hell Songs live, and wanted to add "more groove and low-end" to the band's sound. He wrote bigger-sounding songs that wouldn't "get lost in a large room", contrasting previous Daughters albums. Marshall was not pleased with the band's new sound on Daughters, citing that it was forced, not natural, and thus less artistic. In an interview with Noisecreep, Marshall commented, "It's so easy to steer it and try to be accepted, and do this because this is what's good, and this is what's going to make our band popular. That's no good. That's not art. That's shit. It's not even shit. It's less than shit. What's less than shit? I don't even know. Trying to be other bands... that's less than shit."

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