HAIM

It's got a slow build that feels like it forgets to peak and it doesn't have as much of that Haim je ne sais quoi as my favorite tracks of theirs but it's still a beautiful song and I'm a major sucker for E•MO•TION so i'll be more than satisfied if the rest of the album is more of this.

I'm not feeling this new single at all. The drum sounds are terrible to the point of distraction.

Listened to this a bit, not a huge fan, but I like the band and can imagine liking the song in context.

i don't mind this new single! it's not exceptional but it's not terrible. it seems promising.

― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

something very 2017 about this tweet

But "not terrible" and "seems promising" don't sound like ways to describe 2017 at all.

the new one is good, it also could have fit seamlessly into the last LP for better or worse. right now i'm leaning for worse.

hum. yeah, far from their previous singles afaic.
hope the rest of the album is better...

Pall Thermos Fanboyson

Here's some middle ground

Kind of the same here. I was pro-HAIM, maybe not as much as some, but I have continued to like a bunch of their singles (and maybe a couple other album tracks). I am not into these two new songs at all.

they would be decent album tracks but i'm a little alarmed that they're lead singles

Want You Back is ok but all the tension and drive has been smoothed off compared to the best singles from the debut

Hey, "Pour Some Sugar On Me" was the fourth single.

I like these quite a bit, but i don't HAVE TO LISTEN TO THEM AGAIN RIGHT NOW like almost every song from the last album.

I gave it another try and find it inferior to most of the album tracks from the first album.
It's more like a b-side.
indeed it's a weird choice for a lead single.

Studio version of Right Now is still pretty sparse

https://youtu.be/qALvRCFNNpo

i like it. it does feel like a "mood" rather than a song, but that's exactly what a band who's been away for awhile should do, no? whet the appetite without sating it? there's no album to buy yet.

There's weird stuff going on in the studio version, things that sound like mistakes, not sure what was the intent behind them.

That buzz of an unplugged cable? it sounds like they were high and on mixing day were like "listen we WANT mistakes in this record! It'll sound more HUMAN man!!"

lmao now i REALLY don't like "right now"

Right now, an ILXor is deciding they don't like "Right Now."

lol

artwork and titles are so bad i can't stand to hear the actual tunes.

i mostly like these songs but i kinda agree with you there

drums in 'right now' are so crazy sloppy tho
dunno it works for me somehow

Haim what is going on with you, I'm worried

That buzz of an unplugged cable?

Not just that. Like it's poorly mixed. Stuff like the guitar is too loud, some off-beat background percussion, mic hiss?

I noticed the off-beat stuff too.

This is fantastic, you're all mad.

enough production bullshit to cover up the fact that there still isn't a song there. i guess i don't mind.

I actually really like the song, that's the worst part! All I wanted was a properly mixed version of the recording on the video. :(

The new track they performed on SNL tonight sounded pretty good, and I'm already in love with "Want You Back," so I'm expecting good things from the record despite "Right Now."

Yeah wow they were terrific on SNL, restoked for album

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054ggn4

is it just me or is there some shonky drumming in this too?

vintage bassface here

New song? I was on youtube and this came on on the recommended videos. No discussion in here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svgkBA2GEFk

I like this better than the previous two.

they played this one on SNL and it sounded better there iirc

Yeah, this is my least favorite of the three so far.

there's something quite bubblegummy about these new tracks, huh?

Yeah they all sound perhaps too sweet for my taste. They had a good balance of sweet and somewhat fierce in the first record but seems like they lost the angst along the way to stardom.

Not bad, but I also remember this sounding better on SNL.

I think I like that slightly better than the other two. I am liking the trademark run-together vocal parts more on this one. I like the way the guitar solo at the end reminds me of a bad Ukigumo guitar solo (although obviously I have no illusions that's what they had in mind). Still not as good as the best songs (or maybe any songs) from the debut.

jury's out on the rest for the moment but "found it in silence" is fucking amazing

ooh..

average 3/5 review in that well known music paper, 'the metro', this morning.

I've listened to this twice and I have to say I'm a little heartbroken about how average this is. The production and arrangements seem so fussy when everything on Days Are Gone sounded so effortless and essential. Worse than that, the songs leave no impression at all. I really struggled getting through it the second time.

i feel like that's gonna be everyone's general impression but i'm on listen two and i like it a lot, but i like fussiness, it's very dense and overdone with detail even though the songs themselves are almost weightless. i didn't care for any of the pre-release songs so i'm pretty surprised tbh

i also kinda think days are gone falls off a cliff after track six also and this record much more evenly distributed

I think it's safe to say that it's not going to win the end of year albums list on here.

they'll probably do ok without us

I listened to DAG today and idk if it really falls off so much as it's just not that well-sequenced or sth - so many of the second half's tracks FEEL like album-closers that I did start to get a bit ready for it to be over even though they were all cool songs.