HAIM

yet more evidence of 77 borad entering the collective subconscious

77 borad users have had the new HAIM album for months. They've been listening to it in there while we starve out here.

i don't think the problem with this song is the production as much as it is the fact that there's really not much of a song there

I think the album version will sound very different, don't know if that will improve it though

sarah mary chadwick's last album did this type of approach a lot better, this song is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-fkPjj1J4

I'm with Johnny Fever on this. Even as a demo that chorus hook is really instant. The video reminds me of when Rilo Kiley used to write great songs and then stick them at the back end of their albums with crappy Casio preset production.

man i love that guitar sound.

haim used have an actual drummer. with the very rock name of dash hutton! wonder what happened :(

Wasn't Dash only their live drummer and doesn't appear on any of their recorded output?

ahhh you could be right!

New single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7krrRoJpT0

Kinda meh? I'm much more interested in the studio version of "Right Now"

i hate this band

I'm into it

i don't think the problem with this song is the production as much as it is the fact that there's really not much of a song there

OTM.

i don't mind this new single! it's not exceptional but it's not terrible. it seems promising.

that's way more like it

eh.

i feel a new jersey coming on (hopefully not a fairweather johnson)

Fan of this single. Very emotion-era Carly Rae, which is all I'm asking for in this sad world.

Same producer as Carly Rae so makes sense.

Rechtshaid is apparently Danielle's boyfriend! The more you know. Dev Hynes and Rostam attended to some of the production as well.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-haim-found-their-way-back-with-something-to-tell-you-w480244

Surprised at the lukewarm reaction to "Right Now" in this thread, that's a great tune

There's not much middleground about Haim on ilm.

Here's some middle ground: I'm a big, big fan of the first record but I'm having a hard time warming up to these new songs. I want to love them but

Im with bunny slopes. Loved the first record but not feeling any of these two songs so far. I love Ariel's production tho so even if the compositions leave me as lukewarm as they have at least it will sound great. The harmonies in their voices are there too but I don't know... I want more groove out of them... not a fan of how these sounds more like ballads and less like rockers.

It's got a slow build that feels like it forgets to peak and it doesn't have as much of that Haim je ne sais quoi as my favorite tracks of theirs but it's still a beautiful song and I'm a major sucker for E•MO•TION so i'll be more than satisfied if the rest of the album is more of this.

I'm not feeling this new single at all. The drum sounds are terrible to the point of distraction.

Listened to this a bit, not a huge fan, but I like the band and can imagine liking the song in context.

i don't mind this new single! it's not exceptional but it's not terrible. it seems promising.

― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

something very 2017 about this tweet

But "not terrible" and "seems promising" don't sound like ways to describe 2017 at all.

the new one is good, it also could have fit seamlessly into the last LP for better or worse. right now i'm leaning for worse.

hum. yeah, far from their previous singles afaic.
hope the rest of the album is better...

Pall Thermos Fanboyson

Here's some middle ground

Kind of the same here. I was pro-HAIM, maybe not as much as some, but I have continued to like a bunch of their singles (and maybe a couple other album tracks). I am not into these two new songs at all.

they would be decent album tracks but i'm a little alarmed that they're lead singles

Want You Back is ok but all the tension and drive has been smoothed off compared to the best singles from the debut

Hey, "Pour Some Sugar On Me" was the fourth single.

I like these quite a bit, but i don't HAVE TO LISTEN TO THEM AGAIN RIGHT NOW like almost every song from the last album.

I gave it another try and find it inferior to most of the album tracks from the first album.
It's more like a b-side.
indeed it's a weird choice for a lead single.

Studio version of Right Now is still pretty sparse

https://youtu.be/qALvRCFNNpo

i like it. it does feel like a "mood" rather than a song, but that's exactly what a band who's been away for awhile should do, no? whet the appetite without sating it? there's no album to buy yet.

There's weird stuff going on in the studio version, things that sound like mistakes, not sure what was the intent behind them.

That buzz of an unplugged cable? it sounds like they were high and on mixing day were like "listen we WANT mistakes in this record! It'll sound more HUMAN man!!"

lmao now i REALLY don't like "right now"

Right now, an ILXor is deciding they don't like "Right Now."

lol

artwork and titles are so bad i can't stand to hear the actual tunes.

i mostly like these songs but i kinda agree with you there

drums in 'right now' are so crazy sloppy tho
dunno it works for me somehow

Haim what is going on with you, I'm worried