HAIM

:/ 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?"

Hah!

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

Yeah, otm

I can't stop listening to "I Can't Change Your Mind," and I'm amazed that after a year and a half of giving us awesome stuff pretty regularly they still had a song as good as this one of their sleeves. Maybe my favorite Haim track so far.

that's the earworm

der, "If I Could Change Your Mind" rather.

The lyrics on this record are very well put together, smh at fitzmaurice's airy dismissal of them

it's a very "oh i broke up with this dude but you know what, i'm not gonna wallow, i'm okay, i am woman hear me roar" sort of record, idk i'm into that

i watched that letterman performance - does the bassist maybe have some form of tourette's? not trying to dis, i know what it's like to have tics and make weird faces when you play.

Bass face.

i know bass face and that's not just bass face

Bass Face Extreme.

Xtreme.

The Chairlift comparison is interesting because I love I Belong in Your Arms but the rest of that album was uniformly good and thus disappeared into the background for me as competent but the HAIM album I'm loving front to back even though there are clear highs. They both project that sort of competent-musicians-making-songs-reminiscent-of-a-particular-time vibe and I can't figure out if HAIM just has stronger songs or what

more personality for sure

Both albums were very labored-over, but only the Chairlift one sounds like it.

it's a very "oh i broke up with this dude but you know what, i'm not gonna wallow, i'm okay, i am woman hear me roar" sort of record, idk i'm into that

― monotony, Monday, September 30, 2013 3:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This thread is surely the most elaborate practical joke in ILX history. You guys totally got me. You zany madcaps! But now can we go back to talking about High on Fire and Velvets bootlegs and stuff?

The whole pitchfork review reads as really needlessly defensive.

i'm surprised they deemed it worthy of best new music tbh

it's bizarre that in 2013 they still have to hedge and equivocate about "polish," as if they were red state congressman afraid of their base.

"we're sorry that this sounds a million times better than a washed out record"

I dunno, I feel like there was a HAIM backlash out of nowhere in the past few weeks/months, and I'm not the only one who's noticed it

It's weird, too. What's even controversial or hateable about Haim?