HAIM

Don't bother to buy the 2x45 LP.

Why not?

full of live spiders iirc

Because if you buy it on vinyl in the hope that it has dynamic range and isn't hot mastered like the CD, you're in for a disappointment.

Speaking from experience btw

i bought it in the hope of hearing some rad music

Me too! I just wish the quiet bits sounded proportionately quieter than the loud bits and there was less overall distortion. Like Nick S might say, it's more fun that way.

ha, i bought and listened to this on CD for the first and second time today.

Huh, so re: previous versions of "The Wire", they said they recorded it 7 or 8 times before they came up with a version they saw fit for release.

I think the biggest Fleetwood Mac influence is the bass player looks almost exactly like Mick Fleetwood, even going as far as to ape his gruesome facial tics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOaQBiP1_qA

Just now getting on this bandwagon, was sold from the first thirty seconds of "Falling." Wow!

they're very tight live. SNL is tough to pull off. You can definitely see why the lead vocalist is the lead in that video.

i love all of their faces all of the time

Wait you're telling me Fleetwood Mac was actually named after a person...?

I really love "Falling" and "Let Me Go"

they're very tight live. SNL is tough to pull off. You can definitely see why the lead vocalist is the lead in that video.

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i love all of their faces all of the time

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I don't know if you were responding to me or not, but just to be clear I didn't mean she was the better looking one or anything, just seems to be the most confident performer.

nah more a general response to "lol/wtf @ bass face" comments ad nauseam

wish NBC could figure out a way to sell ads to international viewers cause i'd love to see that clip :(

finally bought this album the other day after playing the "Forever" EP over and over again. Excellent album, and how has "If I Could Change Your Mind" not been made a single yet? One of my favourites from last year, for sure.

It's the only Haim track on my ballot (my other favorites placed last year).

I'm sure I read somewhere that If I Could Change Your Mind was the next single.

Is "Go Slow" on the album mixed differently from the version on the "Forever" EP? It sounds subtly different, the vocals on the chorus are a bit richer-sounding.

This is like "The WIre" video except more honest lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u4tpZFf5xI

this doesn't sound like haim tho

sounds more like be your own pet or something

i know i was joking

its more of a conceptual thing

Listening to the album for the first time (I bought all the early singles, but interest had waned by the time Days Are Gone was released). Most striking thing for me is the Pinback riff (Non-Photo Blue) in Go Slow.

...which apparently I didn't notice on the ep.

Am I the only one who has noticed the complete absence of pronouns on this album? Not saying, but just saying.

You mean second person pronouns? Cause there are plenty of me's and I's on there.

there are plenty of yous--rev u mean gendered pronouns?

Third person singular (human)
Y'all need pronoun school

err, yeah, I meant gendered pronouns. I should have been more specific.

yeah i don't think this is surprising, my fav haim lyrics (the wire, if i could change your mind) are from the perspective of someone who's very much in their own head so it's all i/you hypersubjective stuff

I haven't really thought about their lyrics a ton because they generally settle for being serviceable to the song, rather than attention-drawing in their own right, but otm!

They're sisters therefore lesbians duh

I don't get any gender-attraction-ambivalence vibes from Haim but I like that "Honey & I" (my favourite track) is like a post-breakup "Wannabe".

^^^^ Man I just looked at that post and had this crushing moment of self-consciousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGj3BKZj248

Ha, I'm only really questioning the lead singer Haim tbh.

bored of them already.

i'm with you, rev.

Wow, I've been p underwhelmed by everything I've heard by these guys so far but Days Are Gone (the song)is p great huh? Pur cyborg pop, like a combination of Big Love and Strawberry Skies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5sbp6HTL_8

:DDDDDDD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRr-8pf3bYc

My favorite song on the album looks to have a video just as good. Can't wait.

In a way, I'm glad that didn't place in the 2013 poll so it's eligible for the 2014 poll.

Oh shit, the typography in that is giving me a design boner.

omg