HAIM

Oh and the label is Polydor hence the sound, that's definitely not gonna be a rock album

yeah supposedly Epworth is/was involved too and he's pretty much as big a name in pop/rock production from the last decade as any i can think of, especially after winning an Oscar.

The thing about Paul Epworth is that he seems really adept at working with artists to get the sound they want to get. He doesn't come in with a sound. That's a good thing, imo. I mean, Adele doesn't sound like Florence and neither of them sound like Bloc Party and none of the three of them sound like Haim, which sorta proves the point I was making about their recordings sounding like the band wants them to sound.

ferxez, I think they're just a pop/rock band at heart, no matter how much they wail live.

Also, the idea that Polydor wouldn't release a rock album is silly.

I didn't say Polydor wouldn't release a rock album but judging by the last single I don't think they will. When they were starting to get known a lot of people, and not only teenagers, were really excited about this band of girls who sounded different and didn't see to care about mainstream, everybody was excited and thought they would be a promise for rock music and music in general, breaking out of the mainstream sound of these times and going for something different, now they only seem to be interested in going mainstream and ubberly commercial. Make a poll or log into twitter and you'll know what I mean, they're targetting the music and themselves to a more young audience, they definitely want to be pop, that's what I meant, and by pop I don't only mean the sonics but popular in itself

I still don't understand what the concern is. 80% of all music is targeted towards a young audience. Some sticks, some doesn't. If the music business was aimed at 40-somethings, though, there would be no music business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tom4UFjdxAQ

They're hardly occupying the same territory as One Direction.

rechtshaid had a few production credits on the last bieber album iirc

"When they were starting to get known a lot of people, and not only teenagers, were really excited about this band of girls who sounded different and didn't see to care about mainstream, everybody was excited and thought they would be a promise for rock music and music in general, breaking out of the mainstream sound of these times and going for something different, now they only seem to be interested in going mainstream and ubberly commercial."

are we seriously making this argument

I can't say that any of the four singles ("Forever", "Don't Save Me", "Falling", "The Wire") have scanned as anything other than pop to me

I mean it's fleetwood macky guitar-pop but it's still unmistakably pop

dgaf about LDR-esque "PR" arguments tbh

I don't think ferxez is anyone's sock, but a wayward soul who wandered in from a blog comments section somewhere.

ferxez needs to go now

Lol why do I have to go? I like their music, I have liked them since last year when I saw them live in the UK and weren't even much known by then, I have already saw them twice live and they're fantastic, I just don't like much the production of the latest single, I believe I'm entitled to have my own opinion like a lot of people around here, you can't silence people's opinions.

or can u

I think this is their weakest single to date but that's really down to the song rather than the production choices. Didn't think much of the rockier version they played at Glastonbury yet.

They were one of the more talked-about performances of the festival, you kept overhearing people talking about them, that was as much for the personalities and human element as anything else. They've done enough to take their time over the album rather than just rushing it out like so many heavily hyped debuts.

Would have been nice to have had the album for the summer though.

Yeah, I'd wait an extra six months or whatever for an album that's 90%-100% good as opposed to wanting one immediately that only has 3 or 4 good tracks.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that the band that put out "Don't Save Me" is now going for a mainstream, radio-friendly sound

cutting their teeth in the teenpop world is such a cool little detail

I think this is their weakest single to date but that's really down to the song rather than the production choices.

Word. Actually, I feel like each successive single has been weaker than the last.

xpost to MattDC I saw them a couple of times last year, and both times was impressed, but noticed the sets were only six or seven songs - and the best of them had been floating around YouTube for years. Which didn't fill me with confidence for the long term.

Word. Actually, I feel like each successive single has been weaker than the last.

― suggest bando (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 30, 2013 5:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

"falling" is their best song imo

^^

Don't Save Me > Go Slow > The Wire > Falling > Forever > Better Off > Honey & I (maybe? I haven't heard a studio version yet)

Oh whoops. I forgot Send Me Down, which would probably be between Falling and Forever.

was gonna complain how the hype is doing this thing of fixating on the wrong old band they sound like (fleetwood mac instead of the pretenders!) but google shows me this isn't really true at all.

I don't get why I've seen so many Stevie Nicks references when she sounds way more like Christine McVie to me.

they musically sound like FM but she is in no way like nicks! so dumb

Pretenders with a FM production sounds more accurate.

Hypem.com community loves them btw, yesterday I gave the wire a 'like' and it was on a measly 28 or so today it has jumped to 2.3K

I always forget about hype machine being a thing that exists, but I guess it's still useful in some way?

If you have a profile and personalize it to follow your type of blogs it's a great way to find new music, otherwise it's filled with bloghouse and amateur remixes. The popular section is also a fun alternate to the mainstream charts (albeit also filled with the afformentioned crap remixes).

Like per example you can follow cool mp3 blogs like awesome tapes from africa and soulsides (and moteldemoka, heh) and its an easier way to listen to a feed.

Would have been nice to have had the album for the summer though.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 16:44 (Yesterday) Bookmark

i'm not even so head over heels for this band but this greatly disappointed me too

Is blog house still a thing that exists? Or did dubstep take over that?

Yes and yes.

bloghaus just eventually subsumed dubstep back into itself

i get why their drummer isnt a band member but i wish he was

But he is.

(Just not in the photos, I guess.)

is he though?

Dash Hutton makes it into some promo shots:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/5ba116843c3fbc92a6d2892361dda74b/tumblr_mlxd71tAUl1s4vka6o1_500.png
http://sxsw.com/sites/default/files/news/image/photo_0.JPG

He does get to be in some but that guy in the last picture isn't Dash

http://worldredeye.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Haim-Hayley-Williams1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6g56lQo.jpg

i'm into "the wire"

HAIM announce debut album Days Are Gone
By Luke Morgan Britton, 5 August 2013, 10:53 BST

LA trio, HAIM have finally unveiled the full details of their long-awaited debut album.

The BBC Sound poll winners for 2013 will release the record, entitled Days Are Gone, on 30 September. The album is 11 tracks in length and features recent singles ‘Falling’, ‘Don’t Save Me’ and ‘Forever’.

The LP is available to pre-order now. The tracklist and artwork are as below:

1. Falling
2. Forever
3. The Wire
4. If I Could Change Your Mind
5. Honey & I
6. Don’t Save Me
7. Days Are Gone
8. My Song 5
9. Go Slow
10. Let Me Go
11. Running If You Call My Name

link w/ albumcover

i feel like that cover could be better

http://www.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/c2e6ad0c93032588d328fdf50bf441addf082130.jpg

i wonder why it took so long if so few of the songs are new

Don't like the cover choice, but I took it upon myself to at least make it a little more in line with the singles that have been released so far.

http://i.imgur.com/zMZMDLu.jpg

yeah the cover's not up to much is it? i preferred the black-and-white-and-pink-scrawl of this, much more like a 'classic album'

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000040471442-s62582-crop.jpg