"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
― ufo, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
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
― monotony, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
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
― ufo, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
My two favorite Haim tracks are on Something to Tell You (the title track and esp "Nothing's Wrong").
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
i do not think something to tell you is better than the first record but it's good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
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"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 03:31 (three years ago) link
Oh Rostam B is fully involved in this (songwriting and production on all but one track).
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 26 June 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Friday, 26 June 2020 05:04 (three years ago) link
Not sure about All That Ever Mattered yet.
― kitchen person, Friday, 26 June 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
Is the scream in the chorus a Prince sample? Gett Off?
― Freeze Instr., Friday, 26 June 2020 06:08 (three years ago) link
oh well this is fucking fantastic
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
"Now I'm In It"!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
i want to put "i know alone" on a mix with one of the garage tracks from notes on a conditional form
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link
every track on this is effortlessly brilliant and it has so much range
― ufo, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
"3am" = oh, it's the '90s in the summertime
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
the production on this... it's like a pop-up book
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
just all these surprise shapes rising out of the surface constantly
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
the way "another try" morphs so smoothly
― ufo, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
"man from the magazine" is sooo joni
― ufo, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
the outro on it catches me off-guard each time with how great it is when the horns come in
― ufo, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
i'm really pro-"all that ever mattered"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
Early 00s German techno fans will note the big Monstertruckdriver energy on Up From The Dream.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah I love this
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
"another try" is fuckin unreal
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
3 times hearing 3AM it’s an early obsession. They nail that 90’s R&B sound.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 June 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
"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?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, June 26, 2020 7:54 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's just another extension of the sheryl crow comparison but my mind immediately flashed to tuesday night music club
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
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.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
they share an essence as hippies out of time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
and they're scenesters
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
I'm a little shocked at how well tacking the singles on at the end works. "Summer Girl" is a great closer.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
In yet another early 90’s influence, the faux-reggae pop in Another Try reminds me of Ace of Base.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Sheryl Crow was what I was thinking of yeah.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
We're probably no more than 18 months out from everyone trying to sound like Jagged Little Pill so strap in.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
Looking forward to lj's ringing endorsement.
― pomenitul, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
rain on my wedding day
― imago, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
I'm only happy when it rains on my wedding day and I don't want to go home right now.
― pomenitul, Friday, 26 June 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
I only hear the sheryl crow / mid 90s MOR influence on a few songs tbh
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
I can’t find credits for the album. I want to know if Thundercat is somehow involved in 3AM?
There’s a song title connection with him, sounds a bit like his style and the Haim sisters make a cameo on Dragonball Durag’s video.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
this is giving me early Sheryl Crow vibes and I COULD NOT BE MORE THRILLED
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
ok wow lmao I did not expect several people to have also come to the same conclusion
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
fluttering G-funk (3am), homages to Walk on the Wild Side (Summer Girl) and Joni Mitchell at her most seething (Man from the Magazine, an acoustic riposte to a leering journalist), and Led Zep bounce (Up From a Dream).
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
yeah this is just as eclectic as the 1975 album, just less showy about it imo
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link