HAIM

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.

this is giving me early Sheryl Crow vibes and I COULD NOT BE MORE THRILLED

ok wow lmao I did not expect several people to have also come to the same conclusion

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).

yeah this is just as eclectic as the 1975 album, just less showy about it imo

Loving this!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eJU6X3_jQ

i think this is probably AOTY so far for me

is Another Try kinda calling back bits of Why by Carly Simon? that’s what i keep hearing. top track!

I can definitely hear it in the chorus drums.

it is flat-out ridiculous how good this record is. from “don’t wanna” thru “fubt” especially is just a blissed-out listening experience

new york is cold
I tried the winter there once
no

The first 10 seconds of this album sound like Large Professor

this is stacked full of jams!

album of the summer

this is giving me early Sheryl Crow vibes and I COULD NOT BE MORE THRILLED

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 26, 2020 2:56 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

said the same thing yesterday

Been listening to this all day and it's great.

So is "Man From the Magazine" more a Joni tribute than a Joni parody? It works as either.

Pretty much reeling from ths album, can't recall the last time a band had a massive quality leap from album 2 to 3. Felt choked at a couple of points; some stunning stuff.

This album's vibe is being really openly taking chunks from songs they love — which is so much fun, it's like a greatest hits album.

There's a line in Summer Girl that's almost directly from People's Parties:

You're there when I close my eyes, so hard to reach
Your smiles turn into crying, it's the same release

and

One minute she's so happy
Then she's crying on someone's knee
Saying, laughing and crying
You know it's the same release

Leaning On You is so Never Going Back Again, and Now I'm In It is so Savage Garden.

I can't remember anything at all about the second album.

I remember it being good/fine. What I unfortunately remember more is seeing them live a couple of times more, and what was once charming had shifted into shtick.

I liked the first one a lot, completely missed the second one and find this one nice so far although I'm a bit surprised by the rave reviews/comments.
I don't hear anything fantastic (for now) after listening to the whole thing like 5 times over the weekend.
Maybe it will grow on me later and become one of the seven wonders you all hear !

'gasoline' is so beautifull

^^^ it's ridiculous

Yep that's my favourite track after a few listens. It's a really strong record all the way through though, even if you don't count the three bonus singles at the end it's still one of the year's best for me.

starting to really love this trend of bonus tracks as kind of a end credits/bonus victory lap thing on records

My favorite track is one of the bonus goodies.

"now i'm in it"? it's the best song ever

this album is played 24/7 in my apartment. i can hear it blasting through my roommates headphones while she works right now

Yup. "Now I'm In It" is max Soto-ness.

"Now I'm In It" is still tops but "3AM" is the biggest revelation for me - doesn't come off as pastiche to me at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crZvtA9I4lY

this was a scream

really in love with the way this song briefly turns into a racket at the end

Women in Cardio pt. III

haven't got into this yet despite loving the singles - jessie ware album hogging all my bandwidth

same, same, same

This album rocks.

i agree - love it

that live performance of a couple of songs off the album upthread is such a joy to watch and listen. they are amazing.

This is so great. Had no idea until now that Cass McCombs played guitar on "The Steps" (and "Up From a Dream", for that matter).

starting to really love this trend of bonus tracks as kind of a end credits/bonus victory lap thing on records

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, June 29, 2020 8:32 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

big ...And Carrot Rope vibes off the singles at the end sequencing

definitely need to spend more time with this -- time that i'm eager to spend fortunately -- but this has several really great tracks

"i know alone" is already probably by favorite roller-rink bass-pop track by a 'band' since the xx's "on hold," just really beautifully and sincerely done

My favorites so far are The Steps, Up From a Dream, Gasoline, and Another Try, but and the album ranges from great to at worst pretty good. It's fairly tightly focused sound-wise, but within that sound I love all the different textures and approaches they try.

finally digging into this. feel like a lot more songs are popping out at me than on the second one, though that one never really left my "i should give this some more listens!" queue.

"Up From A Dream" the first to really really get me, like a "heard it once and already the chorus is locked in my brain" kinda way.

might just be Spotify quality problems but everything is sounding just a little like a gratingly low-bandwidth MP3 to me. which kinda enhances the 90s retro feel if you squint, but clearly this is a lushly produced album so, yeah, gonna assume spotify streaming is to blame.

Production/mix is definitely weird but I don’t know if it’s spotify or a deliberate choice, considering they have the same people involved as their past two albums and I didn’t notice it before.

Heard a brief interview today w then talking abt how the first minute and a half or so of “Don’t Wanna” is a LinnDrum that just segues into a real drum and I somehow never noticed this but I love it so much

i've noticed when it changes but wouldn't have guessed that the first part was a drum machine!

i have no idea when my physical copy is getting shipped but i am excited to dig into the production of this album properly.

2 things about The Steps:

1. Danielle phrases her vocals in the bridge ("You go left...") in a manner reminiscent of Loudon Wainwright III ca. late 70s, esp. his live performances.

2. Esme's bass comes in halfway through the 2nd verse ("You won't stop it...") to play an unusual V-vi-I-I (A-B-D-D) across the I-IV-I-IV (D-G-D-G) of the guitars. I'm not really a theory guy but it's startling and gives an illusion that the song's jumping ahead of itself.

Also Danielle's drums are very reminiscent of Lindsey's on Fleetwood Mac's "What Makes You Think You're The One?"