Haim are the sort of band that kids looking for rock idols wielding guitars and droves of attitude want to paste amongst tattered posters on bedroom walls. Why, exactly? Because Haim look, feel, and sound like a proper band - with an inimitable, unmistakable something energising everything they touch. Haim have always generated a giddy excitement, and amid a landscape that so frequently complains of repetition, derivation and even boredom, here is a band worth undivided attention and boundless hysteria. All this doesn’t really come as a surprise. ‘Better Off’ can be heard playing everywhere from Radio 1 to the local shops. Danielle, Este and Alana Haim spent the summer performing headline-worthy sets, the pinnacle being their over-brimming tent at Reading Festival. Indeed, just one year later, Haim are occupying double-page review spreads, and hanging out with Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne and urm, Philip Green during London Fashion Week. HAIM Release "Gasoline" Remix feat.Even when their ‘Forever’ EP was a wee glint flickering and barely registering on transatlantic radars, it wasn’t mere speculation to picture big things.2021 Grammys: The 10 Best Performances By Scott Russell Ma| 5:02pm.Dive Headfirst into '70s Nostalgia with the Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza By Aurora Amidon Septem| 12:12pm.HAIM Announce 2022 North American Tour By Ana Cubas Decem| 3:06pm.
No matter if their next steps lead to Top 40 success or ignominy, the journey will surely a fascinating one. It is where HAIM goes from here that will be the true test of their obvious abilities and guile. And considering the attention the trio has already received, they have quickly struck a chord with music fans around the world. Much of the guitar work on “The Wire” is entirely superfluous, and “Honey & I” takes far too long to really get up a head of steam.įor a first foray into the pop universe (not counting Danielle and Este’s days as members of a Nickelodeon-approved girl group), Days Are Gone is a hell of an opening salvo. As well, multiple listens start to reveal the cracks in even the best songs here. As intriguing as the production gets-the interpolation of a slow trap beat into “My Song 5” is a particularly nice touch-nothing reaches the heights of the album’s first six tracks. The LP is frontloaded with could be Top 10 hits, leaving the back half of the album awash in afterthoughts.
The original hooks on the above songs will have their barbs in you for days on end.ĭays Are Gone follows the pop template to its own undoing, though. And all three women use their tightly wound harmonies effectively and impressively. Lead vocalist Danielle Haim is a constant surprise, taking some of the most unusual roués to squeeze in her discursive lyrics of personal joys and woes. It’s one thing to give these reference points the spotlight, but the goal is to transcend them in some fashion. One song later, they bring in the ruby-colored synths and spirit of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” to augment their own “If I Could Change Your Mind,” and follow that up with “Honey & I,” which hews as close to the template of Eurythmics classic “Right By Your Side” without becoming an straight cover song.
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2” hybrid then moves into a mixture of late ‘70s/early ‘80s rock touchstones from their beloved Fleetwood Mac to Linda Ronstadt to Billy Squier. The most recent, and blatant, example is the group’s latest single “The Wire.” It opens with a “Heartache Tonight”/”Rock & Roll, pt. Lately, though, the feeling has shifted to: “Huh, this song sounds almost exactly like that song.” This is the trouble Robin Thicke and Pharrell have stumbled into with their facsimile of Marvin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up.” And it’s something that you are going to be hearing about a lot in reference to Days Are Gone, the first LP by all-sister trio HAIM, because these young women don’t try to hide their pastiche approach to songwriting in the slightest. The idea, as far as I understood it, was to imbue in the listener the feeling of “Oh, this song reminds me of that song.” How a band or artist distinguishes the work is in the shading or smoothing over of those imprints. When knocking a pop song into shape, the finished product is always going to bear the marks of its influences.