HAIM

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)

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.