HAIM

whoa those string stabs. this rules!

i love this fuckin band so much

Wow, this song slays!

Damn, what a build at the end!

i was wondering if they were gonna do something that sounded a bit bigger. their shows are kinda heavy, they're really into guitar solos and stuff. this is dope.

i still find it hilarious that i didn't know about them until the ilm 2012 poll

V. nice, this.

xp: why? this thread didn't even start until November 2012.

Late spring/summer 2012 is when they first started popping up in blogs, so it's not like anyone was that far behind by the time of the poll.

Why are people so impatient with this band? Their first single was October 2012 and the album will be September 2013. That seems normal to me.

I hear people in the industry saying they've left it too long but if they are going to crack the mainstream, which I think they will, the kind of people who'll love the album won't know or care that it's taken a year.

Ha! I just noticed that a very early version of "The Wire" is posted near the top of the thread.

Why are people so impatient with this band? Their first single was October 2012 and the album will be September 2013. That seems normal to me.

this is practically the same release schedule as the 1975

it's a little odd but i'm into it

I just went back and looked for the first place I ever read about Haim. I knew it was on the Neon Gold blog, and it turns out it was March 5th 2012. http://neongoldrecords.blogspot.com/2012/03/tired-of-fighting-good-fight.html

I think The Wire was the first song of theirs I heard about a year ago. Daytrotter session or something?

Anyway it was what turned me on to them as it seemed to have a bit of a Phoenix vibe about it. Great song.

This is fantastic. Yet again.

Stupid soundcloud. I keep wanting to hear this song on repeat, but the first track that autoplays when it's over is some Macklemore piece of shit.

Same here.

i love this fuckin band so much

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seems they're pretty much following the time-honoured 1st single to debut album timeline of say Suede in the early 90s who's debut single was May 92, and the debut album was March 93.

i got a lotta love for these ladies. really like the way they radiate endless but sincere positivity in interviews / stage presence / social media / etc etc

new tune A+

I really don't like it at all, I prefer the live version, it's way more rock, strong and imposing, whereas this just goes back way too much into the 80's and takes too many elements from that era. The overuse of synthesizers, the long echo after the "it felt right" part, It feels like I have just turned on the tv and I'm watching an 80's marathon on vh1, which I love, I love the 80's and until now I had loved all of their songs and the nostalgic 80's touch butI this one I'm just not digging it, but hey that's just me, apparently everybody else loves it and. I predict their album to be more pop than anything else.

maybe it's juss cuz I sang "Every Heartbeat" at karaoke over the weekend but I'm getting a bit of pop Amy Grant somewhere in this.

not enough synth bass then

I can see the amy grant thing, it's way too 80's that's why. Ok so the more I listen to it the more I like it lol, the sound is catchy but I still prefer the other version

The other version just sounds like a sketch to me. Half of Haim's charm lies in the production choices they make. The songs are really compressed, wound tight, like they're about to explode. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. It's a guessing game.

They do sound a bit wound tight when live, like they're always on a rush, I believe that's because they like to maintain a certain upbeat atmosphere during their shows or they're like that and it's directly reflected through their performances. I think this song could have been better produced, I stick to that,or better said had a different route. I really don't know to what extent these girls have a saying on what goes in and what goes out in their music, they're working with high end producers and label, the audience is being very well controlled (observe tumblr, twitter and all the hype) it's mostly 15 to 18 year old girls who are making a buzz out of this it's all being very well orchestrated and I don't think it's casual they're pushing the release this much, they're actually testing the waters with the singles little by little and observing what the audience response is. Yeah call me a PR nut or whatever but I've studied PR so I know all about it.

Are they really working with high profile producers and marketers? I don't get the feeling they a group who is willing to be pushed around. Like, if they want the songs to sound a certain way, those songs will sound that way.

Sky Ferreira could learn a thing or two.

lol, so it's actually pronounced as in "if you go to tel aviv, you should meet my cousin, haim"

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this pops into my head every time i scroll past haim on my iphone

does ariel rechtshaid count as high profile?

I didn't recognize the name, but I looked up his credits. Mid-profile at best.

The producers are the same ones who have worked with Florence + the Machine, Adele and Vampire Weekend

Oh and the label is Polydor hence the sound, that's definitely not gonna be a rock album

yeah supposedly Epworth is/was involved too and he's pretty much as big a name in pop/rock production from the last decade as any i can think of, especially after winning an Oscar.

The thing about Paul Epworth is that he seems really adept at working with artists to get the sound they want to get. He doesn't come in with a sound. That's a good thing, imo. I mean, Adele doesn't sound like Florence and neither of them sound like Bloc Party and none of the three of them sound like Haim, which sorta proves the point I was making about their recordings sounding like the band wants them to sound.

ferxez, I think they're just a pop/rock band at heart, no matter how much they wail live.

Also, the idea that Polydor wouldn't release a rock album is silly.

I didn't say Polydor wouldn't release a rock album but judging by the last single I don't think they will. When they were starting to get known a lot of people, and not only teenagers, were really excited about this band of girls who sounded different and didn't see to care about mainstream, everybody was excited and thought they would be a promise for rock music and music in general, breaking out of the mainstream sound of these times and going for something different, now they only seem to be interested in going mainstream and ubberly commercial. Make a poll or log into twitter and you'll know what I mean, they're targetting the music and themselves to a more young audience, they definitely want to be pop, that's what I meant, and by pop I don't only mean the sonics but popular in itself

I still don't understand what the concern is. 80% of all music is targeted towards a young audience. Some sticks, some doesn't. If the music business was aimed at 40-somethings, though, there would be no music business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tom4UFjdxAQ

They're hardly occupying the same territory as One Direction.

rechtshaid had a few production credits on the last bieber album iirc

"When they were starting to get known a lot of people, and not only teenagers, were really excited about this band of girls who sounded different and didn't see to care about mainstream, everybody was excited and thought they would be a promise for rock music and music in general, breaking out of the mainstream sound of these times and going for something different, now they only seem to be interested in going mainstream and ubberly commercial."

are we seriously making this argument

I can't say that any of the four singles ("Forever", "Don't Save Me", "Falling", "The Wire") have scanned as anything other than pop to me

I mean it's fleetwood macky guitar-pop but it's still unmistakably pop

dgaf about LDR-esque "PR" arguments tbh

I don't think ferxez is anyone's sock, but a wayward soul who wandered in from a blog comments section somewhere.

ferxez needs to go now

Lol why do I have to go? I like their music, I have liked them since last year when I saw them live in the UK and weren't even much known by then, I have already saw them twice live and they're fantastic, I just don't like much the production of the latest single, I believe I'm entitled to have my own opinion like a lot of people around here, you can't silence people's opinions.

or can u

I think this is their weakest single to date but that's really down to the song rather than the production choices. Didn't think much of the rockier version they played at Glastonbury yet.

They were one of the more talked-about performances of the festival, you kept overhearing people talking about them, that was as much for the personalities and human element as anything else. They've done enough to take their time over the album rather than just rushing it out like so many heavily hyped debuts.

Would have been nice to have had the album for the summer though.

Yeah, I'd wait an extra six months or whatever for an album that's 90%-100% good as opposed to wanting one immediately that only has 3 or 4 good tracks.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that the band that put out "Don't Save Me" is now going for a mainstream, radio-friendly sound

cutting their teeth in the teenpop world is such a cool little detail

I think this is their weakest single to date but that's really down to the song rather than the production choices.

Word. Actually, I feel like each successive single has been weaker than the last.

xpost to MattDC I saw them a couple of times last year, and both times was impressed, but noticed the sets were only six or seven songs - and the best of them had been floating around YouTube for years. Which didn't fill me with confidence for the long term.