HAIM

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.

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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.

Yeah there's a real 1993 feel to this, even the rock songs sound like the kind of give-the-boomers-what-they-want records that came out around then. And it's the first time I've actually believed that there was a real R&B influence at work.

"Yeah there's a real 1993 feel to this, even the rock songs sound like the kind of give-the-boomers-what-they-want records that came out around then"

interesting, could you expand on this? do you mean like Counting Crows, or records from 1993 made by actual boomers?

3am, Another Try, I Know Alone are the three I’m more obsessed about but there isn’t a single song in here that I feel like skipping.

interesting, could you expand on this? do you mean like Counting Crows, or records from 1993 made by actual boomers?

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it's just another extension of the sheryl crow comparison but my mind immediately flashed to tuesday night music club

As the interest in Tango in the Night synth arabesques fades, now we enter the period when Sheryl Crow's an influence on contemporary bands.

I don’t hate Sheryl Crow as a “cool” influence for the next decade. she was unjustly maligned and I blame the rockist attitude of the 90’s where you either made pop or rock but walking the line in between got you sniped down. She has some legit great songs.

they share an essence as hippies out of time

and they're scenesters

Something to Tell You felt a bit like it was done on auto-pilot. I like that they've taken more care with creating interesting textures and sounds on this new one, which was a big part of what made Days Are Gone so good.

I'm a little shocked at how well tacking the singles on at the end works. "Summer Girl" is a great closer.

In yet another early 90’s influence, the faux-reggae pop in Another Try reminds me of Ace of Base.

Sheryl Crow was what I was thinking of yeah.

We're probably no more than 18 months out from everyone trying to sound like Jagged Little Pill so strap in.

Looking forward to lj's ringing endorsement.

rain on my wedding day

I'm only happy when it rains on my wedding day and I don't want to go home right now.