HAIM

Lindstrom remix is great imo http://soundcloud.com/feedelity/haim-forever-lindstr-m-prins

live on lauren laverne (who pronounces their name wrong) -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011jm4m

in this mutant-80s-RnB world we now live in, i like that haim seem to be mining the rockier side of that, the strutting, jagger/michael jackson side. so far it seems to MOSTLY be a kind of stored-up potential (i can imagine live shows being more... kinetic?) but by my lights it's a good sign that they're starting simple

Really like them. This is kind of amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gtP0dQV0Rlg

This their best song, I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K936dIhm05Q

The songs are actually pretty enjoyable but they feel so derivative without really bringing very much personality to the table that I can't imagine ever really loving them. The L&PT remix is terrific though.

brilliant remix material almost seems like their destiny? :/

There's a definite feel of 2006-era Bigstereo band to them.

Don't Save Me video just popped up today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqIush2nTA

I'm liking them pretty well. They're like Warpaint's younger cousins who still get out during the daytime. I do get the complaint about not "bringing very much personality to the table"; the lead singer is a too restrained too much of the time. She sorta reminds me of Bob Weir in that way, if that makes sense.

I watched the little mini-doc on them yesterday: http://youtu.be/ZE_Kgk7w4f8

Like most sibling acts, it seems like one or more parents are living vicariously through their experiences. Not that their dad is taskmaster or a glommer—he actually seems really nice—but HAIM the band probably wouldn't exist if left up to chance.

There's a definite feel of 2006-era Bigstereo band to them.

― Matt DC, Monday, November 26, 2012 6:36 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What are some Bigstereo bands from 2006 that you are thinking of? I found that blog and the few things I checked out either sounded way dancier than this or more like Franz Ferdinand or the Interpol or whatever.

Haim have been really mis-sold by the whole Fleetwood-Mac-play-R&B thing. There's nothing R&B about them live. And not a lot that's Fleetwood Mac either. They're a good American pop-rock band. One thing that seemed odd to me is that both times I saw them the set was no more than seven songs, including covers, and the best of them had been knocking around for a while. Which made me winder if there was definitely a while good album in them.

this will surprise nobody who's ever taken even the most cursory of glances at the Lindstrom thread but I completely love the L&PT remix. probably listened to it twenty times over the long weekend.

The first single sounds very Phoenix to me - something about the vocal mannerisms.

Something about them still sounds a little too "we live in a nice suburb and our parents helped us put up the money for a good producer." Talented though. Maybe in a couple of years.

Is it really any wonder, I reject you first
Haim, Haim, Haim, Haim

Even though I find them slightly annoying, it's pretty hard not to like "Don't Save Me"

winners

http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundof2013

someone has already tweeted "i thought they were the sound of 1984!" haw haw

I like this Cyril Hahn remix of "Don't Save Me".. It comes across a bit Benoit and Sergio

woah! hold your horses! going out on a limb there beeb

I thought restating what everyone in the industry already thought was the point of this list?

Don't Save Me is great, not so sure about the rest yet.

"don't save me" is better than anything on that chairlift album - which i liked a lot

the big, clacking, off-kilter drums are incredible

Even though I find them slightly annoying, it's pretty hard not to like "Don't Save Me"

― UnderControl, Monday, November 26, 2012 6:21 PM

yep

is that the current single? accidentally heard haim on the radio the other week and thought it was something dredged up from the actual 80s

on that tip, here's some actual west-coast girl-group pop-rock dredged up from the 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOKP3n6l0r4

and here's haim's new single -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01374g9

just listened to "Don't Save Me" for the first time and I really, really, REALLY love the lead singer's voice

the song itself is a little on the whatever side

she ENUNCIATES very well

for reasons I can't quite explain they remind me a bit of Lone Justice.

my first reaction while listening was "I wonder if I'd be able to deal with Lana Del Rey's songs if Danielle Haim was singing them instead" and then I remembered that I've hated every iteration of "Video Games" that I've heard

xp Going out on a limb is pretty much the polar opposite of what the BBC poll is about.

I love what I've heard so far - Forever was one of my singles of the year - and I hope they don't botch the album because ones-to-watch culture has become so overheated in recent years that it practically guarantees backlashes.

I think Haim are probably better at nailing a certain bittersweet rushiness that you get in that kind of 80s teen movie pop than a lot of acts who are striving for that sound. I listened to the Chairlift album a bit last year and couldn't connect with it at all.

unsurprisingly they sound great when they harmonize together (there's a whole interesting sideline thing about genetics and how people who are related tend to have naturally-matching vibratos that ties into why so many family-based singing groups sound awesome together)

posted this already at the start but its a cracker so..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onsJ1MFpKxQ

I feel a bit sorry for Chairlift. I Belong In Your Arms is one of those great recent pop songs, like Zero/Heads Will Roll, which feels like it should have been Top 10 but didn't get anywhere near the charts because radio wasn't interested. I think Haim are going to benefit from a more open-minded mood at Radio 1. Strictly UK perspective of course - I don't understand how US radio works.

that's okay, neither do we

I don't understand how US radio works.

It doesn't.

http://www.svfreya.ca/photos/fiji3/radio_fix.jpg

I can't let go of this absurd, meritocratic, utopian ideal - which never existed - of radio programmers hearing a really good catchy song and playlisting it without worrying about where it fits in. It's the poptimist Brigadoon.

Has anyone won/appeared high up on the Sound Of... poll and NOT found themselves immediately playlisted on Radio 1? That'd be like the BBC admitting they don't have faith in their own poll.

Pretty sure 'Zero' made the R1 playlist as well.

recently i had to spend about 5-6 hours in one day listening to radio 1 and it was an entirely dreadful experience. in that entire time ONE song i enjoyed was played (kelly clarkson's "stronger", i nearly wept with gratitude) but even the shit songs were a relief because it meant the intolerable presenters shut the fuck up briefly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/playlist/

^^^ I mean this basically looks like a mashup of things that have been on the 6music playlist for ages, things that have been on the 1xtra playlist for ages and yr obvious massive pop acts that go straight on there anyway. I'm not really seeing anything different to how it's been for years.

good fucking god, that playlist

None of the Top 5 are currently on the playlist - only Peace and Tom Odell from the longlist. Although Everything Everything, alt-J and Foals are all on the A-list, which surprised me. I don't have an archive of old playlists to compare but I'm sure it's opened up recently.

I'm not really viewing the presence of those three bands as opening up, they're all reasonably well established acts at this point and you'd have seen, I dunno, Friendly Fires or Noah & The Whale or whoever on the R1 list in the recent past. It looks like box-ticking rather than open-mindedness really.

I'm feeling optimistic

haim have been getting play on radio 1 for ages, just not the daytime shows

same with laura mvula (first played by zane lowe, of all people), angel haze and pretty much everybody else really

Thanks for bringing rain to my HAIM party, T.

this song knocked me on my ass the instant I heard it… it's very very hot…and so it seems that TS's contributions are utterly unnecessary… I bet you she heard it, contacted the sisters and Reichstad (boy what a great career he's had) and pass/ag said "you know I love that song, can we do a new version with my extraneous warbling?" and a.) they probly like her and b.) she's the most popular and powerful recording artist of the past decade, and let her do it even tho any such addition is unsuitable…

ew to both of these. just made me appreciate the originals more.

thinking now that 3am by Matchbox 20 is like the worst song ever but I could totally see Danielle Haim giving it loads of gravitas and elegance

the original already has gravitas and elegance what are you talking about

Not a fan of the Taylor remix, but I don't think there's some weird-ass conspiracy theory behind Taylor being involved, they like each other a lot, from what I can tell.

they said they specifically asked taylor bc they're friends and thought she'd be able to add something to the song. that's it

that's why i had her guest on my album too tbh

Well whatever Taylor Swift added to the song, it sounds like they recorded her vocals from a zoom meeting.

catching up on their glastonbury stream from a few hours ago and they sound absolutely fantastic

chiller version of "i know alone" with a sax solo closing it out rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWEa5PagRs

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weird, it works for me & we're both in aus iirc?

it's a new song "cherry flavored stomach ache", from a soundtrack

try this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW6vrf_Suzg

Someone's been listening to Highway 61 Revisited.

Sounds like something from Paul Simon's Graceland album, the bright melodic figures and polyrhythms.

💀💀💀 pic.twitter.com/Hjdp5W5HFe

— Este Haim (@jizziemcguire) November 29, 2021

ouch

Oh!

New song and another PTA directed video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7pXjZHT_4

2:35. that is one short song. love it.

^ has been playing in front of Licorice Pizza for a month or two

HAPPENING NOW » @HAIMtheband Is Performing At Ape Fest 2022 pic.twitter.com/7EyKR3bkSX

— The Bored Ape Gazette🍌 (@BoredApeGazette) June 21, 2022

yeah this kinda sucks but also imagine them doing the I Know Alone dance to a bunch of uninterested dorks

Why would you post this and make me aware this shit exists

BassFace NFTs

judging by all of the crowd shots I've seen the festival is really putting the bro in the crypto bro scene. Haim might be the only three women on the entire grounds.

Amy Schumer did a standup set.

I hope all these dorks get paid in crypto.

I wasn't being literal, just hilarious to see a crowd that makes a latter day Yes show crowd seem diverse by comparison

they are born rich ppl this is expected

I remember when selling out became cool, then this

Wouldn't it be funny if people like Haim and LCD soundsystem invited tech bros and wealthy dictators to perform at their private parties?

Like, beyoncé and Jay Z hiring Mark Zuckerberg to appear at their party?

murphy did that ash-ra rip off for nike (it sucked) like 20 years ago dude has always faked the funk

nah that was good, but he has always been a sell out

Has he sold out, or bought in?

He’s losing his edge

To the techbros

And the finance bros

And they actually pay really, really nice.

https://imgur.com/oz4dcLK

https://i.imgur.com/oz4dcLK.png

I was there in 2017, when 10,000 Crptopunks were minted on the Etherium Blockchain

Why did Dall-E turn him into a hedgehog?

damn their debut album came out ten years ago

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