🎧 Approved: Ex:Re

Elena Tonra is the lead singer of Daughter, and Ex:Re - her solo project - is very much a different side of the same coin. Where Daughter deals in heartbreakingly fragile indie-folk, Ex:Re is still interior but more assured; alt-pop that chronicles the gnawing minutiae of consciousness.

Her self-titled debut in 2018 was a cult classic. She never intended to make a second one. Then in 2023 she took some sketches into the studio with producer Fabian Prynn and here we are, with new album ‘Save As’ out later this month.

New single ‘Sleep’ was written and demoed alone in a Paris hotel room, and that texture lives on in the final cut; an acoustic guitar run through a vocoder and a drum machine, muffled and late-night, something you might hear bleeding through a wall. 

Tonra describes it as “something I’d dance to”, which is not the first thing you’d expect, but makes complete sense once you hear it.

Shot in black and white, the live video is impressive in its execution of simplicity. Prynn’s drumming mimics a drum machine with an almost unnerving precision.

‘Save As’ is out 30 Oct. The in-store shows are already sold out.

🎧 Watch ‘Sleep’ performed live below