This Gift
Sons & Daughters
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Gilt Complex | Sons & Daughters | 3:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Split Lips | Sons & Daughters | 2:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | The Nest | Sons & Daughters | 4:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Rebel With the Ghost | Sons & Daughters | 3:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Chains | Sons & Daughters | 2:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | This Gift | Sons & Daughters | 4:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Darling | Sons & Daughters | 3:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Flags | Sons & Daughters | 3:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Iodine | Sons & Daughters | 3:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | The Bell | Sons & Daughters | 2:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | House In My Head | Sons & Daughters | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Goodbye Service | Sons & Daughters | 4:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Booklet Digital Booklet - This Gift | Sons & Daughters | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
Morphing from a twangy punk sound on their first two albums (one of which gave us the wonderful “Johnny Cash” single), to a more distinct garage sound, This Gift finds the Scottish quartet rocking all-out, with barely a pause for breath. The band (two girls, two guys) confess to a love of “the swinging girl groups of pop’s golden age,” and many of the tracks here use retro girl-group vocal arrangements in ways that perfectly play off Scott Paterson’s and Adele Bethel’s clanging, screeching guitars and the adrenaline-pumping tempos. The swaggering “The Nest” boasts huge, echoing drums and strutting guitars, perfect for white go-go boot action, and “Darling” is what the Supremes would have sounded like were they a Scottish pop-punk band in 2008, instead of a female soul-pop vocal outfit in 1965. Both the title track and “Chains” return to a sort of Wild-West dust-up, with guitars sounding like whizzing bullets and vocals full of spaghetti-western echo and implied doom. But songs like “Flags,” “House In My Head,” and “Goodbye Service” serve to show how Sons and Daughters reach into the past, present, and the future, to bend and shape the pop format into something vibrant and new.
Recent Customer Reviews
Another Great Effort!
by Nesta2645This is another solid effort by an extraordinary band! I, like one of the other reviewers below, am giving this five stars to counteract some of people that feel the need to give it a one or two star rating. Ordinarily I'd give this about a four, but there is always someone who knows nothing about music (see that cat who thinks Linkin Park is a gift to the rock world), or those who never want to see their indie band stray from their "roots". That's the best and worst thing about music though; everyone has an opinion. This is a great album, and worth the purchase.
Great Pop!
by bgkcastingSplit Lips is a must buy - Gilt Complex is an excellent pop tune. Reminds me of a more poppy version of the "Go-Betweens" - Very impressive
Great Live
by TheDeputyI saw this band at coachella and they were great live. Adele is a great front woman who knows how to entertain a crowd.
Biography
Formed: 2001 in Glasgow, Scotland
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Sons & Daughters
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilt Complex | This Gift | 3:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | The Nest | This Gift | 4:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Chains | This Gift | 2:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Split Lips | This Gift | 2:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Darling | This Gift | 3:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Indie Rock
- Released: Feb 05, 2008
- ℗ 2008 Domino Recording Co. LTD

