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"Sounds like Fleetwood Mac" is pretty reductive. Clearly influenced by Fleetwood Mac and a ton of other stuff, yes. Bottom line is they consistently write better songs than any of the other bands you're referring to - only Chairlift come close imo and, as noted upthread, they're on an artier tip.

http://www.collapseboard.com/reviews/albums-reviews/haim-days-are-gone-columbia/

However, if you’re someone over the age of 23 who professes to care about music and you buy this album, you should be ashamed of yourself. Grow the fuck up. Remaining a child all your life is nothing to be proud of.

I'll see how it settles in, I don't really feel like the songs are better, I reckon the El Perro Del Mar record is better than this, but I may just be incapable of liking a record I feel like I'll hear at every social occasion ever for god... three to four weeks at least.

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This is nothing like El Perro Del Mar though.

I love that El Perro Del Mar record but it's going for a very different atmosphere, more hazy, more horizontal, kind of Balearic Julee Cruise vibe. There are similarities in the source material but the treatment is completely different to any Lissvik produced project really, the Haim album is a straight-up pop record.

Yeah these are proper, sturdy, radio-friendly pop songs, not the kind of fuzzy platonic-ideal pop that the Balearic crew produce.

i mean the 2009 epdm btw, more than pale fire.

I just feel like the rhythmic approach is very different to say Lissvik productions. I described it elsewhere as "all these nervous, stuttery 1987 grooves slowly unfurling and building momentum like a colt learning how to run for the first time."

The difference is that there is not really much if any disco (or synth-pop) in Haim's arrangements.

It's definitely the XX debut or Bloom of 2013, I'll grant you that.

Yeah 'Love Is Not Pop' was the EPDM I was thinking of, as far as I can remember it's the only one I've heard.

The Collapseboard review is astonishingly, bar-raisingly bad.

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I'll leave you to repost it on worst music writing ever thread then

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Not even that polished, the way the drums rudely burst in at the beginning and the end of Forever.

FWIW I really hate the post-Soft Bulletin trend of foregrounding drums like that.

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back when they only had an EP or so out, i always got 'forever' and 'don't save me' confused because they intro'd both songs with foregrounded drums

When people compare bands to Fleetwood Mac, nine out of ten times they mean Fleetwood Mac's drum sounds.

You think that's the case here?

Well, I think people are certainly thinking of the production quality of Tango in the Night - which is very arranged and percussion heavy - more than the songwriting.

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

Nope, no percussion in that one!

what? It's all over the place!

That was a very dry joke. Dry as the drum sound.

I don't know what I expected this album to be but it's very pleasant

"Honey & I" feels like it's about 500 years long, though

This album isn't great bc it sounds like Tango in the night or whatever (which I haven't heard, along with a lot of the other reference points people are dropping -- I couldn't name you a Wison Phillips song, Shania? I know "Man I Feel Like a Woman") although it's a nice sound, it's great because its by leagues the catchiest set of songs I've heard this year. I think I said earlier I've barely gone hours since I first heard it without one of these songs (and every single one of them at some point) popping into my head.

Yeah, the complaints of filler I've read are dumbfounding. Every track on this album is tight as fuck.

yeah this album has hooks for days

I love Tango in the Night but it's patchier than this.

They're both patchy.

btw I don't think this particularly sounds like Tango. I posted "Caroline" because I thought it must be what people had in mind when comparing the two albums.

I'm pretty sure the Shania comparisons come solely from The Wire.

I don't agree with this album being patchy at all.

Really the only thing stopping this from being a lock for my AOTY is that Chance writes brilliant lyrics and they don't.

I'm eh on "Falling" and one of the ballads at the end. It's still one of the year's best.

"Let Me Go" rules pretty hard

I didn't really get "Falling" til I heard it on the album but now I always want to listen to it. And then I listen to the rest of the album.

btw I don't think this particularly sounds like Tango. I posted "Caroline" because I thought it must be what people had in mind when comparing the two albums.

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Yeah it's more like "Love In Store" and "Hold Me" with 1987 production.

"Love in Store" or "Family Man" given the Balearic treatment

idk i think "everywhere" kinda prevails as an analog

For some reason, Forever keeps reminding me of Time After Time. Same chord progression?

Ha Alfred's dn makes me think of "the objections to Haim from REAL INDIE people"

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some of the drum sounds on this remind me of Invisible Touch era Genesis

That's otm

kind of a dumb generalization though I guess since most '80 records tried to have phil collins sounding drums haha

so basically "80s drums"

"Tony Banks drums"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW68T84RLHw

lol

I didn't even know I was nostalgic for something like this but it's taking me back to being a 9 year old listening to the Jets.

I watched that Genesis video, and most of the time Phil isn't even playing the drums. He's not even singing into a real microphone! What a scam. I bet they never imagine that video would be around 25 years later and that people would be checking. Shame on you, Genesis. Shame. On. You.