HAIM

can't watch the video in Canada yet but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVtrvM-uWiQ

Blessings

love this. leans heavily into fleetwood mac territory, but at the same time feels like a new landscape for them

if it exists/ever comes out this might be their best album

Pretty song.

amazing song, not too far from carpenters territory neither. sounds like a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2O_xa8cems

good shit

can't say why but i bet alfred especially loves this one

the intro of this sounded great perking up through the dying nasty chord at the end of the Ulcerate single

really nice chorus

sounds like a sheryl crow joint

an't say why but i bet alfred especially loves this one

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 3, 2020

The main guitar lick's cool -- yeah, a Sheryl Crow vibe. The verses are kinda blah?

i feel like u can tell which parts of this video were directed by a PT Anderson and which parts were directed by a HAIM

sounds like a sheryl crow joint

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, March 3, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

this is accurate.

interesting that they are kind of accreting a great 2020 album where I'll have listened to most of the best tracks in 2019

that's kinda how their debut rolled out

This sounds more influenced by songs in Tusk like “what makes you think you’re the one” than by Sheryl Crow.

wow yeah moka otm

lot of the weird fuzzy boxy disembodiedness of "the ledge" in the production

i’m really into this - the way it sounds, the writing, the video! danielle thumping the drums!!

so far it’s now i’m in it > the steps > hallelujah > summer girl for me, though i find something to enjoy in all of them

Correct ranking

it is the correct order. more generally, having drifted away a little after their early singles, i’m delighted at the quality of the recent stuff.

The Steps is one of the best three or four songs they've ever recorded. It is WAY UP THERE for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQ69kBdHO4

it's even better live

that ruled, thanks.

agree with monotony that "Now I'm in It" is still tops though.

“Our first show ever was at canters deli in 2000 so we decided we want to play shows at different delis across America to celebrate our new record,” Haim wrote on Instagram. “We’ve never done anything like this before so let’s all get together and eat some matzo ball soup and we’ll play you some songs live. Maybe some new ones??”

Haim’s D.C. show will take place on Wednesday, March 11. The location is currently unspecified,

From a Dcist.com article

Not seeing an email notice, so I guess no bagels and Haim for me today

No matzo ball soup either

helluva live verson

*version even

It's pretty nifty how Danielle and Alana keep trading that riff off back & forth between the verses/choruses.

that's a really great performance

they've now marked the three prior singles as bonus tracks on the itunes tracklisting (no other track titles yet except "the steps"), which is slightly disappointing i guess

Nothing off their last album did anything for me, but I love the The Steps and really like Summer Girl.

i still think the second album was really solid and underrated and better than the debut as an album even if it didn't reach the same peaks, but if they can keep up the quality of the singles for the whole album this should surely be their best

Their greatest hits will be pretty ace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZSgr_si4I

imo: jesus christ, this song

is that an arthur russell sample in the background or are they just evoking him really hard over some muted... miami bass drums?

this is dope as hell

wow this rules

Is this meant to sound like a RealAudio stream from 1998? Higher fidelity would make me like it more.

Even more pronounced Latin-freestyle nod than on "If I Could Change Your Mind"--great production on this
(and yeah, at 2:46 they are undoubtedly purposefully evoking Arthur, but I doubt it's an out-and-out sample--didn't notice the cello having been in the bg earlier until that element had its Russell-y solo/iso squealy swell moment there)

Thank goodness my ears are shot so I can't find any fidelity faults with it

love this song so much

Thank goodness my ears are shot so I can't find any fidelity faults with it

I thought it might just be the youtube upload, but it sounds the same on spotify. The whole track underneath the vocals sounds extremely artifact-y—not in the "underwater" way a lot of pop leans on recently, but like a badly ripped mp3.

To listen to this after the Hayley Williams album disoriented me.

The production does sound lo-fi compared to what they usually sound like, but maybe it’s on purpose considering the Arthur Russell nod?

JF is right it’s mostly in the voice where it’s extremely noticeable, hope they clean it for the album version because the song itself is brilliant. Probably my favorite of the singles released so far, but it does sound like a badly ripped mp3

Listening to them back to back, the production on The Steps isn't noticeably any glossier, but yeah you just cannot use an Arthur Russell sample and apply their usual sheen to it. It works.

That Fallon performance of "The Steps" has been scrubbed from even the diciest corners of the webz as far as I can tell.

(posted upthread March 10th)