HAIM

tomorrow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039x7n4

"HAIM pick the music, taking control of Radio 1 with their Super Sweet Bat Mitzvah playlist!"

did anyone mention on this thread how they rip off prince when you were mine in parts of "forever"? so maybe they are analagous to story of stevie nicks pulling over to side of road after hearing little red corv and then writing stand back but replace her with christine mcvie soundalike and when your were/forever

has unperson weighed in yet

don't save me and forever are still their only great songs for me. maybe the album will kick in shortly

Can't wait to hear this.

perfectly sweet album (sweetly perfect more like perhaps) but i can't say i'm really finding anywhere to connect with it. just kinda seem like savages for not-savages at the end of the day

Not hearing the "Forever"/"When You Were Mine" connect. They're both pop songs with chugging new wave guitars but beyond that...?

days are gone days are gone oh!

that song is so good

not sure what i think of the latin freestyle/lisa lisa and cult jam-like touches. more than touches, really. all over the title track. not opposed to this in principle, but it really breaks up the album in a distracting way.

solution: just put that song on repeat for long periods of time :)

kind of wish I had two brothers I could start a Haim tribute band with :(

just kinda seem like savages for not-savages at the end of the day

― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does this even mean

really

Based on two listens on the bus today, this album is really good but the song with the dubstep bass stops it from being great. I don't get much of an r&b vibe - 80s or contemporary - from this at all, it reminds me more of those El Perro Del Mar/Taken By Trees albums produced by the guys from Studio.

xp i guess you are trying to say you don't connect with either haim or savages? i just don't see how they are comparable groups

other than they have wymmyn with guitars in

Enjoying the new tracks on the album immensely but really every time "the wire" comes on I have to put it on repeat.

i heard "the wire" on an actual american commercial radio station this morning.

what kind of station? alt rock? top 40?

I don't get much of an r&b vibe - 80s or contemporary - from this at all

I get more r&b from some of the new songs, "If I Could Change Your Mind"/"Days Are Gone"/"My Song 5" specifically, than any of the old songs.

alt rock station

this so great. not sure why i waited on listening to it. i think i got some fatigue from the trickle of songs and 'the wire' didn't make me as excited as 'don't save me' or 'falling' but this is really really good stuff.

except the wire is hitting hard now. is the album version different from whatever i originally hard?

the version at the top of the thread sounds v much like a demo compared to the album version

I get more r&b from some of the new songs, "If I Could Change Your Mind"/"Days Are Gone"/"My Song 5" specifically, than any of the old songs.

My Song 5 is terrible because you get the sense that they actually believed all that nonsense about them being Fleetwood Mac-meets-R&B or whatever and tried to write an obviously R&B-influenced song. Only problem is that both they and their producer are really bad at it, the whole thing is clumsy and just doesn't work.

"Honey I" is a nice take on "Sweet Jane"-isms.

love my song 5 and all the production on this across the board, dunno what y'all on about

"Honey I" is a nice take on "Sweet Jane"-isms.

And, of course, Fleetwood Mac, not least, um, a bit of "Honey Hi."

Also, there's tons of R&B to this. It's like an awesome fusion of Fleetwood Mac and Teena Marie.

Based on two listens on the bus today, this album is really good but the song with the dubstep bass stops it from being great. I don't get much of an r&b vibe - 80s or contemporary - from this at all, it reminds me more of those El Perro Del Mar/Taken By Trees albums produced by the guys from Studio.

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe, but the vocals on the title track are pretty obviously influenced by 80s R&B. teena marie might be a good reference point, but I hear a lot of latin freestyle type stuff. like real commercial freestyle. lisa lisa. maybe even martika or something.

yeah and "my song 5" seems like a failure to me

"My Song 5" keeps reminding me of Dirty Projectors' "Stillness in the Move".

Speaking of hamfisted attempts at R&B homage...

I hear a lot of latin freestyle type stuff.

Oh totally. These guys would do an awesome Nu Shooz or Pretty Poison. I mean, holy shit, this is basically Haim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omx7u0ZWUAY

An "I Can't Wait" cover would be a good look for them.

omg

Stevie Nicks' "I Can't Wait," he means.

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

If they conflated them live people would lose their shit.

my god

Please assume I meant a Nu Shooz / Nicks mashup.

I also feel like Haim is the band to rehabilitate "Hungry Eyes".

Now that's just going too far.

"my song 5" is a way less good version of "send me down" but i'm still down with it

oh man, pretty poison. it's 1987 all over again! were the haim girls even born then? not that this would invalidate their tastes.

i'm going to post this just cos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v8YragSIuI

haim's lyrics kind of remind me of this stuff, too

but yeah, there's no getting around that they've probably worn their copies of mirage and tango in the night down to nothing

were the haim girls even born then? not that this would invalidate their tastes.

i interviewed alana about this point specifically and i think a lot of it is unconscious reverberations that this stuff possibly had in late-'90s r&b?

I've been waiting years for Tango in the Night to displace Rumours in the influence department.

were the haim girls even born then? not that this would invalidate their tastes.

i interviewed alana about this point specifically and i think a lot of it is unconscious reverberations that this stuff possibly had in late-'90s r&b?

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:11 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean they're picking it up 2nd hand? that doesn't seem possible. anxiety of influence maybe?

Yeah, I dunno, the period details of the Haim music is so OTM that it has to be more than osmosis at work.

i agree! it's just i didn't get much out of going that direction in the interview. who knows