You Won't Get What You Want

On July 13, 2018, Daughters released a single, "Satan in the Wait" from their upcoming album and announced that they were now signed to Mike Patton's Ipecac Records.^[5]

On August 17, 2018, Daughters announced the title of the album, and released the second single "The Reason They Hate Me", it was described as "noisier and more abrasive" than the last single.^[6] Frontman Alexis Marshall described the song as "a complaint, an expostulation, a critique on the abuse of critique".^[7]

The band also announced more tour dates alongside the announcement.^[6] On October 2, 2018, Daughters released the third single from the album "Long Road, No Turns", the song was described by Rolling Stone as "another unique beast: off-kilter rhythms pierce through a seething veneer of distortion and Marshall, his voice sounding crystal clear, sings about making mistakes and coming undone."^[8] On January 14, 2019, the band released their first-ever music video for the song "Less Sex". The video was directed by the band's former guitarist Jeremy Wabiszczewicz.^[9]

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You Won't Get What You Want was met with widespread critical acclaim. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 87, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".^[11] The album was included on numerous end-of-year lists as one of the best albums of 2018.

Pitchfork wrote, "Similar to their Providence art-metal contemporaries in The Body, Daughters' accessibility is directly proportional to their uncompromising compositional choices—hypnotic dissonance, martial drums cranked to incapacitating volumes, scathing vocal repetition, all rendered through impossibly vivid production. This is not music interesting [sic] in growing on you: it consumes and dominates."^[16]

PopMatters called it "the perfect return for Daughters. While aspects of the band's creative vision have been altered and their sound has further evolved, the core elements remain intact. The asphyxiating sound has been augmented with the inclusion of longer, heavier sludge influenced moments. The tension the band build is further explored through different means."^[17] The album also received a "perfect 10" from Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop.^[20] In 2021, Jacek Szafranowicz described the album as "the most surprising record of 2018", noting that "Less Sex" is a "gorgeous 21st-century blues".^[21]

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Year-end lists for You Won't Get What You Want

Publication	Accolade	Position	Ref.
The A.V. Club	The best punk and hardcore albums of 2018	—	[22]
	The A.V. Club's 20 best albums of 2018	18	[23]
BrooklynVegan	BrooklynVegan's Top 50 Albums of 2018	28	[24]
Consequence of Sound	Top 25 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of 2018	4	[25]
	Top 50 Albums of 2018	36	[26]
Exclaim!	Exclaim!'s Top 10 Metal and Hardcore Albums Best of 2018	4	[27]
Loudwire	The 30 Best Metal Albums of 2018	12	[28]
musicOMH	musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2018	42	[29]
The Needle Drop	Top 50 Albums of 2018	1	[30] [31]
PopMatters	20 Best Metal Albums of 2018	13	[32]
	The 70 Best Albums of 2018	26	[33]
The Quietus	The Quietus Albums of the Year 2018	13	[34]
Rolling Stone	20 Best Metal Albums of 2018	2	[35]
Sputnikmusic	Sputnikmusic's Top 50 Albums of 2018	2	[36]

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Credits for You Won't Get What You Want adapted from liner notes^[37]