HAIM

ok i got curious.

i didn't really expect to like this.

but it's really a great pop album. what can you say? they got the tunes.

at various times in my life i've thought "ok, as a society we've figured it out, THIS is what great music sounds like, let's just DO THIS FROM NOW ON" - i remember DJP had similar sentiments about sonz of a loop da loop era hardcore at some point. and i feel like haim has lit upon this particular constellation of 80s pop with the same idea. as if everything since john cougar mellencamp has been a constant, annealing process of refinement.

in this respect it has a lot in common with the daft punk record but for some reason, feeling out for the reference points on the haim record feels FUN and on the daft punk record sort of feels obligatory.

you can just mentally add "to me" at the end of all my posts obv

well there's a whole conceptual layer with RAM that does that obv, this seems a lot more natural in its selection and incorporation of influences

yeah i keep wanting to come up with the secret but most obvious thing they are cribbing from that everyone has overlooked heretofore. it's peter gabriel! no wait, bob seger!

"at various times in my life i've thought "ok, as a society we've figured it out, THIS is what great music sounds like, let's just DO THIS FROM NOW ON" - i remember DJP had similar sentiments about sonz of a loop da loop era hardcore at some point. and i feel like haim has lit upon this particular constellation of 80s pop with the same idea. as if everything since john cougar mellencamp has been a constant, annealing process of refinement."

That's an interesting take on your embrace of this record--I like it.

more bands should imitate mid eighties Coog actually!

Scarecrow meets Cupid and Psyche '85 would be my lode star.

they don't sound like one thing. which is to their credit. or one obvious thing. like, you know, Chic!

the haerts ep sounds way more like the fleetwood mac pastiche that everyone says this sounds like

i remember DJP had similar sentiments about sonz of a loop da loop era hardcore at some point.

you say this like I don't still feel this way

please accept my apologies for mischaracterizing the durability of your hardcore affections DJP!

Haerts has some Mac ghosts as well, but I wouldn't say they're full blown pastiche.

Here's my favorite Mac pastiche group: https://soundcloud.com/lover-lover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6mXw56q3hU

itunes exclusive track comin atcha

how is it an itunes exclusive if it's on youtube

^

When does the next album come out?

I had the same thought about this vs. RAM (even though I like RAM more than most of ILM, I think). Daft Punk's record is self-consciously a tribute, and Haim's tributes are all unselfconscious. More "We like to make music that sounds like this," than "HEY, remember when music sounded like this?"

(And thankfully no spoken-word cameo from Trevor Horn or whoever.)

"honey & i" somehow reminds me simultaneously of "mandinka" and mellencamp

Reflecting on their concert from 5 days ago, I think ILX has underestimated the impact of 2 more ethnomusicology degrees than the average band. They're not R&B Fleetwood Mac, they're Juice Newton produced at Real World Studios.

veddy eeenteresting

teena marie

^^^ I listened to them last night for the first time and thought of teena too.

These guys are great. Love the guitar writing and guitar playing and the irrepressible squirreliness. I'll be listening to this again for sure.

ILM year end poll top three

I can't think of an album that would stand a better chance of being the ILM end of year number one than this at the moment.

Listening to it for the first time and yeah this a cracking album.

Do the album versions of the previously-released singles differ much?

Discuss this picture of Haim and PM David Cameron.

http://www.collapseboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/haim-david-cameron-590x375.jpg

Do the album versions of the previously-released singles differ much?

tbh I didn't even notice "The Wire" was different until it was pointed out on this thread (and I'm still not sure I can tell how it's different). Are any of the other ones sweetened for the LP?

~ convert ~

Finally listened to this. Reminds me more of the Spinanes than I ever would have expected. Hm.

we haven't discussed that picture yet

let's discuss it

Haim rock, he's an arsehole.

can't remember which song they dedicated to him, but I hope it wasn't one of my favourites.

they dedicated a song to him? this gets richer

guess they're not quite Burzum yet

a quick perusal suggests it was "the wire".

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

obviously this has no bearing on my appreciation for them. additionally, say I was in an up and coming rock band, doing an appearance in denmark with the danish prime minister on some talk show, i might dedicate a song to him/her, for the sake of all-round good, friendly relations, without necessarily knowing what s/he stands for.

so it's all good.

I will however pledge to NEVER metanarrate ILM as an immanent entity ever again. You have my word. Bookmark this post.

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really struggling with this btw

I'm going to listen to this album for the next twenty minutes or so and let you know my thoughts. Brace.

Obviously they should have spat in his face and said "Fuck you Tory. Down with austerity."

look who's here!

opening track perfunctorily catchy in a vaguely nostalgic and unexciting way. some nice production touches that sound borrowed. that ever-so-nervous pizzicato guitar

The fact that they have a song CALLED 'The Wire' should be enough, really. Its soft-focus power-ballad styles are no surprise. Fucking god. Anyway *straightens tie* I guess this is 2013's top album, huh.

*stylINGS, even - although this is very much about style

You've learnt no lessons
All that time so cheaply spent
There's no youth culture
Only masks, they let you rent

Travels, travels in Nihilon
We've seen no Jesus come and gone

Fashion, their vampire
Drapes itself across your back
As you fall from style
It waits rebirth on its rack

Travels, travels in Nihilon
We've seen no Jesus come and gone

Building your whimsy
Hypnotizing you to need
Dance goes full circle
One step ahead of your greed

Travels, travels in Nihilon
We've seen no Jesus come and gone

You've learnt no lessons
All those years to get it right
Flashes of promise
Burn out faster than strobe light

Travels, travels in Nihilon
We've seen no Jesus come and gone

Travels, travels in Nihilon
We've seen no Jesus come and gone

What the hell

xpost to DL: well, what could be more rock 'n roll than that?

xp It's cranky old LJ, ignore him, he's an idiot. Enjoy HAIM