HAIM

(posted upthread March 10th)

yeah i went looking for it myself a week or so ago. what gives?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3AT7eyeJeE

this album's gonna be the best

It's shaping up to be their best yet, it might not be everyone's cup of tea but every song so far is at the very least memorable. I wasn't crazy about the previous one... half of the songs in there I can't even remember how they sound like. With this one, every song so far has instantly connected, it probably helps that every song seems to borrow a certain style or signature sound from other songs/artists.

I really liked the sophomore album, thought it was criminally underrated. But agreed, this new one is on pace to be their best

yeah it was really underrated, probably because none of the singles were as big as the debut's singles but i thought it was better overall. if they can keep up the quality so far this one should easily be their best i agree

When the debut came out it was one of my most played records of that year so I was probably putting way too much expectations on the follow-up. It's probably a much better album than what I remember, I will revisit it eventually. I thought it lacked some sort of variety, my favorite songs were in the first half, so by the second half I usually stopped paying attention or swtiched to something else. Variety is definitely not a problem with the songs from this cycle.

HAIM live on James Corden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewj6V_nAw1I

Two questions:

1. Are they actually playing live? I don't see them wearing headphones so no idea how they even coordinate this. Any ideas how it could be achieved?

2. Danielle's guitar sounds amazing, is it a standard pedal or effect? I love that sound.

It sounds like chorus or vibe mixed with some octave.

Yeah, it's a really watery chorus, maybe chorus with something else going on.

My poor daughter had a virtual piano recital last month, including a piano duet with her best friend, and even a modest lag or delay threw the whole thing into disarray. It was probably cleaned up after they did their parts.

I was just thinking the other night “who’s the best bad right now?” and it’s got to be either Haim or Big Thief. I know many of you would choose a certain bunch of highly verbose Englishmen but I’m mostly immune to their charms.

Best band duh

1. I think just due to latency/lag issues, this performance was recorded much like how many songs are recorded in a studio: piecemeal and then edited together. Probably Danielle first then Esthe, etc.

2. Sounds like a Univibe emulator, maybe a Mojo Vibe: http://www.analogman.com/mojovibe.htm

Settings are probably a mix of chorus & phaser...?

My guess is the audio is pre-recorded separately/not live, then they each recorded their video listening on speakers.

Xp

6 years ago I was developing a thing called “Karaoq” - lster changed to “Museo” as the idea evolved - with a couple of drinking friends who work in digital development. We never got too far as it was more of a hobbie sort of project but the idea was to make a sort of virtual DAW for musicians across the world to be able to compose / jam in real time via internet. It was originally a virtual karaoke thing to challenge friends and sing with them but we went for the big challenge instead.

Latency/lag was a huge issue back then, but we were working under the hyphotesis that connectivity would eventually get to the point were this would be a minimal problem. Seems it still is a problem but if it weren’t it would have been the perfect time to test the program.

Don’t know why I told you that. These “remote live concerts” have me pondering about what the future of music interaction could look like.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBlrlCtlW0i/

live in studio version of a new song which sounds very good

this is pretty easily their best album

they finally live up to that r&b influence everyone talked about early on too

This album's a nice surprise. Their last album so was bland, I sincerely did not know they had this in them.

otm about the R&B.

“All That Ever Mattered” though.

What a great album.

"Another Try" is <chef kisses fingers>

"another try" is low-key incredible

i do wish last year's singles were included in the album properly though, i think they could have fit into the sequencing fine

wow i love "FUBT"

i've probably already said this earlier in this thread but i think "something to tell you" was unfairly maligned. nonetheless this will likely end up my favourite haim album

i maintain that something to tell you is quite good and better as an album than days are gone even if it didn't reach the ridiculous highs of the debut's singles. i don't think the turn to a more processed, mainstream pop-esque production style really played to their strengths on it though. wimp3 is a significant step up from both though

My two favorite Haim tracks are on Something to Tell You (the title track and esp "Nothing's Wrong").

i do not think something to tell you is better than the first record but it's good

also fun to think of new haim and jessie ware records coming out on the same day given that they co-wrote "days are gone"

Oh Rostam B is fully involved in this (songwriting and production on all but one track).

Love this album. 3am is an early standout. It's just so joyful.

Excited for the next few days of just taking it in turns listening to this and the new Jessie Ware. Feels like Róisín Murphy should surprise release an album just to make it a real best of ILM kind of weekend.

Not sure about All That Ever Mattered yet.

Is the scream in the chorus a Prince sample? Gett Off?

oh well this is fucking fantastic

"Now I'm In It"!

i want to put "i know alone" on a mix with one of the garage tracks from notes on a conditional form

every track on this is effortlessly brilliant and it has so much range

"3am" = oh, it's the '90s in the summertime

the production on this... it's like a pop-up book

just all these surprise shapes rising out of the surface constantly

the way "another try" morphs so smoothly

"man from the magazine" is sooo joni

i didn't listen to "don't wanna" very much before the album came out and right now i have to play that one a few times in a row before progressing, the hook is like the ultimate haim hook

the outro on it catches me off-guard each time with how great it is when the horns come in

i'm really pro-"all that ever mattered"

the production on this... it's like a pop-up book

The first time you hear the 'you go left and I'll go right' bit on The Steps is fun on headphones.

Lots of little gremlin voices throughout.

Early 00s German techno fans will note the big Monstertruckdriver energy on Up From The Dream.

Synths in 3AM sound like BOC’s Roygbiv to me.

I love this album so much. It has such a distinctive personality and cool, laidback cool. It’s also surprisingly cohesive as a whole considering how much variety in sounds and ideas they attempt in here compared to previous albums where they didn’t stray too much from a certain style.

Yeah I love this

"another try" is fuckin unreal

3 times hearing 3AM it’s an early obsession. They nail that 90’s R&B sound.