HAIM

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.

otm -- three consecutive side closers

I'd count My Song 5 too but that might just be me.

Don't really get this group. Find them very MOR.

This album is downright fizzy. I'm surprised how similar it is to the first one except everything has a futuristic sheen.

i'm finding these songs kinda amazing???? i'm such a sucker for midtempo wannabe soft rock hits

yeah, i'm liking this waaaay more than DAYS ARE GONE

I'm not there yet. "Little of Your Love" is so goddamn annoying I think it's tainting the rest of the songs for me.

none of the songs really do the thing that made the DAG singles so great, but this works much better as an album - it's more consistent and there's no weird missteps like My Song 5 and I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I might. I'm glad they've successfully branched out their sound a bit even though the production seems a little overworked sometimes

yesca

what's wrong with MOR :)

My Song 5 is one of the best tracks off the debut, everyone is wrong

The whole sad tuba thing is a weirdly misplaced bit of levity, otherwise I don't completely hate that track.

My Song 5 is one of the best tracks off the debut, everyone is wrong

― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, July 7, 2017 11:57 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have always thought this

Yup

otm -- three consecutive side closers

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

this is not a bad thing

When I saw them a few years ago My Song 5 was the highlight of the show. It's so ridiculously heavy live.

ufo otm except that i like "my song 5" and yes it rules live

i concur about 'found it in silence' but what are those chugging strings ripped off from? it's doing my head in.

actually i think it's this

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

my first-listen impression is that there are impressive songs some of which are among their best ever but it does not flow quite so seamlessly as an album

is anything supposed to in the streaming age?

Sure, what's the purpose otherwise of continuing to present groups of songs as albums?

To maximize the number of streams.

Reaffirm an artist's brand. That sort of thing.

This is description, not criticism or endorsement.

You could argue that it might matter less to how you are choosing to listen to the music but that's a different argument.

yeah, I don't disagree with that.

even looking at this in a cynical purely-commercial sense it is artists like haim who are supposed to be continuing to affirm the importance of the album as a unit/medium of artistic expression rather than a platform to rack up a bunch of streams (which they're not likely to do anyway)

this is a weird tangent bc i think it flows way better than the last one

well, albusm were a platform to flaunt singles-plus-filler for many years too and remained so, especially in the CD era.

Albums can have gestalt and structural integrity and all the rest of it, and they can also be singles plus filler. It doesn't matter to me at any rate.

Albums must be organized around a concept, preferably one about a dystopian future where rock is outlawed

otm