HAIM

But doesn't it make you a little bit sad, even if you love the band, that the best 2013 can generate as an ILM consensus pick is a band most aptly compared to Teena Marie? Like I feel like you have a capacity for blind optimism that is unconscionably alien to me if this doesn't make you wince just a teeny tiny bit.

Hell no. It's better than yet another band that sounds like fucking Joy Division.

What a day. Forty hours from hitting the debt ceiling, House GOP have decided that closing the government for two weeks was to cut the salaries of their staff. ILM sez Haim sounds like Teena Marie -- and how it's a little bit sad Haim sound like Teena Marie.

I suppose I'm just feeling a little anhedonic for not experiencing paroxysms of rapturous joy at this record.

No one blames you for not experiencing paroxysms of rapturous joy at this record; we blame you for making strange comparisons.

sneering at Teena Marie will get you life though

I didn't come up with that comparison!

You kept it.

ILM fave Jim DeRogatis thinks this sounds like Wilson Phillips.

someday derogatis is gonna turn around and make you cry

I wish more bands around now cd be compared to Teena Marie tbh

― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

word

Clarke you are better than these posts.

I don't spend a lot of thought cycles on whether this is the best 2013 ILM consensus pick tbqh

Tim, I appreciate you saying that... It's been strange for me recently, because I feel like I've been enjoying music more than I have in a very long time and discovering oodles of new-to-me things, but I've had a really hard time thinking through my tastes and articulating myself. I'm sure the fact that I'm primarily interacting with ILM through my iPhone these days isn't helping. It's frustrating.

Anyhow, to add to the embarrassment, I realized this morning that I was confusing Teena Marie with someone else. I think I'll chill out on this thread for a bit until I can give a proper and open-hearted listen to the record on my regular system.

http://i.imgur.com/neDtSZ2.jpg

it's okay, i give you permission to not like Days Are Gone, a record which is awesome and cool

not necessarily because they sound like them, but haim remind me of vampire weekend and tune-yards when i hear them. maria made a cdr copy of this album from the cd and it sounded terrible in the car. strangely muffled? things usually sound good in the car. anecdotal, i know. i would have been fine with listening to it, but she was playing it pretty loud and i couldn't take it. could have been the copy she made though. i dunno. or maybe i just wasn't in the mood. its only fair that maria torture me sometimes. god knows i've done it plenty with my dumb music. she played some horrible laurie anderson song a couple of weeks ago and i almost jumped out of the car...

Prob reminds of VW cause same producer

haim singer reminds me of kd lang, esp on the slower numbers (honey & i, let me go, if i could change your mind, go slow, etc)

Clarke you are better than these posts.

― Tim F

please haim-er, don't hurt 'em

> The group these gals remind me of the most is Vampire Weekend!

Same producer.

I finally have the album :D

If I hear anything it's Eurythmics. But I am mostly just digging on it & not trying to make sense of it

The drums on this album are so fucking deep and physical

Do the album versions of the previously-released singles differ much?

― how's life, Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:04 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh I didn't even notice "The Wire" was different until it was pointed out on this thread (and I'm still not sure I can tell how it's different). Are any of the other ones sweetened for the LP?

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:36 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can anyone weigh in on this?

as far as i can tell, no

Some vocals re-recorded on one of the singles, "Falling" maybe but can't remember. Saw it mentioned in an interview/article.

I didn't particularly care for the sound of the new Vampire Weekend album - "strangely muffled" sums it up pretty well - but this album sounds better to me. I haven't played it through a great sound system or anything though. I mostly listen to it through a little CD boombox. It sounds nice on that.

Such a shame the CD is brick wall mastered, sounds like it could otherwise have been an audio treat. Really dig it on my iPod but find it unlistenable on the hifi.

so i have finally listened to this album for the first time right now, my mind is blown. why didn't anyone tell me ;-)

we ~tried~

on snl tonight btw

there's a moment in the beginning of Honey & I which is some serious joni ventriloquism

look I like some of this shit too

what is going on here people

I hear Miami Sound Machine in 'Forever'

they did a badass job on snl

and how was Haim?

hah.

also just to continue down the road of mac comparisons, i realized that este's performance mannerisms are v. similar to one mick fleetwood's.

and how was Haim?

Thought they were great.

that bassist is really something to watch. even knowing that going in, i was riveted.

Bassist's enthusiasm was fun to watch, but the first song they did on SNL didn't wow me.

My wife spent both performances going "why is she doing that with her FACE"

I kept asking myself why they sing in that weird clipped way, is that a known style that they're aiming for or an idiosyncrasy or ? Whoever said the main singer sounds like a tiny Michael McDonald trying to get out of her throat otm.

she sounds like she is obsessed with Christine McVie and staccato

she reminds me of that mannered way Lisa Stansfield tried to sing like Barry White, but with Toni Braxton

Ok, because it's like when someone karaokes a song where the vocals have a strong affectation, and they try to approximate that affectation but don't quite nail it? That's what they sound like to me. Michael McDonald is a perfect example!

the clipped singing reminded me a little of dirty projectors

ee NUNCE ee ATE ING IS. THEIR. STEEZ!

i like it, it means you can actually understand some of the lyrics

Lisa Stansfield, ok I get it. I just don't really like it, I guess. I don't particularly like any of those singers tbh. That's just me. Lotsa ppl do.

They remind me of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Yeah most people sing vowels but these ladies like to sing consonants