HAIM

dude loves donut rock

Geoff Barrow weighs in

https://twitter.com/jetfury/status/382194599164649473

https://twitter.com/jetfury/status/383369303997050880

damn every time someone criticises this band i like them a bit more, wtf is wrong with me

er the band i mean

More interesting to me than boring old dudes is the probable double-standard w/r/t dance music - Lindstrom strikes me as no less pastichey than Haim by and large (and the Lindstrom/Christabelle album is one of the few obvious precursors to what they're doing here, at least in part) though obviously over the course of his career he's covered a lot more pastiche-ground, but it's not a criticism that tends to come up - like, we all know it but it's not something that tends to worry people.

Also I think Haim could stand to sound more like Shania Twain to be honest.

Give 'em time! They're young!

So it's pronounced HIME? I did not know that until tonight.

"If I Could Change Your Mind" has squatted in my brain for the last week and refuses to leave. Help!

super super technically it's "HI-yem" but the accepted baseline pronunciation is indeed "hime"

Dad was Israeli. Name is Hebrew for "life."

Sloppy typo on the back of the CD cover

http://i.imgur.com/DOWU6fk.jpg

Is that the commercial release or a review copy?

Commercial

Oooh, like l'chaim. I get it.

i'm probably five years too late in thinking it's weird that bands release deluxe editions simultaneously with the official release, right?

yeah. but i feel you.

good stuff on the bonus disc btw (send me down might be their most forward-looking song?), but even more good stuff on youtube.

Dad was Israeli. Name is Hebrew for "life."

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, September 28, 2013 8:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think they chose the name because it's their last name, not because of the meaning.

is this out yet

Monday.

:/ http://www.nme.com/news/haim/72930

Given the subject matter of "The Wire" it's possible that the dedication gesture was not quite as sincere as the article suggests.

APT

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I think they chose the name because it's their last name, not because of the meaning.

Well, yeah. Duh. I just meant that unlike, say, Corey Haim, whose last name is the same, this Haim comes from their father, an Israeli, which explains why it is pronounced with Hebrew inflection. I brought up the meaning as a Hebrew pronunciation reference.

Given the subject matter of "The Wire" it's possible that the dedication gesture was not quite as sincere as the article suggests.

― Tim F, Sunday, September 29, 2013 8:22 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh come on

it's their most popular song

Flopson they did actually say "it's about you".

Not sure there's much reason for most US bands to care either way about Cameron though.

i could be wrong in that i don't have any evidence one way or the other but HAIM don't strike me as tories

i can't believe that DONT'T SAVE ME thing tho that is abominable

xp ok but i mean like, it's a p amiable breakup song... not really a hardcore diss either way

lmao

everyone agrees that the cyril hahn remix is idiotic, right?

that i can agree with, but cyril hahn's remixes in general are idiotic and pointless

word

I'm not saying they're dissing him, I'm saying that I suspect they would have said "it's all about you" to whoever had been on the show with them.

I don't think I've gone more than a few hours in the past two weeks without one of these songs popping into my head.

I get the impression some of their detractors dislike them because they are a band that codes as indie but are much more interested in straightforward pop songcraft than being artsy and those detractors want the latter from bands who code as indie. Dummies.

8.3

TOO LOW

lol

also chairlift is a good point of comparison but i feel caroline has some kind of art-school visionary thing going on that's absent from haim.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:24 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm relieved at the total absence of art-school visionariness going on w/HAIM, it's one of the things i like best about them

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:40 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get the impression some of their detractors dislike them because they are a band that codes as indie but are much more interested in straightforward pop songcraft than being artsy and those detractors want the latter from bands who code as indie

Right, it couldn't possibly be this

The lyrics on Days Are Gone aren't necessarily built to withstand close analysis; largely, the words function to add a bit of weight to the effortless, feather-light melodies, but Haim do know how to turn a phrase. "The Wire", especially, has some of group's most effective lines..."I gave it all away/ Just so I could say that/ Well I know that you're gonna be OK anyway"

err, meant to italicize Fitzmaurice's quote but you get my drift

The obsession with "polish" is I suppose a sop to PFM's readership.

those goddamn tastemaking eastern europeans

I've not heard the album yet but 'Forever' was my favourite jam a few months back and I can't believe I've seen people diss this band in the way they do.

Agree with the Chairlift comparison, if only because both bands remind me of 'Get Close'-era Pretenders (which was a 1987 family car journey staple in my childhood).

someday a real rain will come

Agree with the Chairlift comparison, if only because both bands remind me of 'Get Close'-era Pretenders (which was a 1987 family car journey staple in my childhood).

The best part: neither act has recorded its "How Much Did You Get For Your Soul?"