HAIM

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.

Are you saying "The Wire" is a soft-focus power ballad? Because if you are, I'm saying you didn't actually listen to it.

never change louis

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq818gfn061qj26eao1_500.jpg

man "Go Slow" is the best

Euler otm.

"Let Me Go" is my #1 jam on this so far

I received my physical copy of the album today.

this band is really boring. their songs remind me of the mediocre crap on the radio in the mid-80s when I was in middle school. I think LJ's descriptions are pretty accurate.

interesting take

you're right: "Song 5" sounds like Starship's "We Built This City" what were we thinking

There's nothing wrong with HAIM, nor with Teena Marie. But doesn't it make you a little bit sad, even if you love the band, that the best 2013 can generate as an ILM consensus pick is a band most aptly compared to Teena Marie? Like I feel like you have a capacity for blind optimism that is unconscionably alien to me if this doesn't make you wince just a teeny tiny bit.

I don't spend a lot of thought cycles on whether this is the best 2013 ILM consensus pick tbqh

you sure sound like you think there's something wrong with haim xp

clarke b wincing

There's nothing wrong with HAIM, nor with Teena Marie. But doesn't it make you a little bit sad, even if you love the band, that the best 2013 can generate as an ILM consensus pick is a band most aptly compared to Teena Marie?

hall of fame post

there are no ILX consensus picks, as this thread proves!

itt threatened indie kids

I've been looking in vain for more songs like "Square Biz" and "Lips to Find You." Their templates remain undiscovered.

itt threatened indie kids

― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think that's in every thread

I am no one's Teena Marie scholar but the assertion that Haim's music closely resembles hers makes me wonder if I've being hearing a vastly different version of "Lovergirl" from the rest of the world

I wish more bands around now cd be compared to Teena Marie tbh

The group these gals remind me of the most is Vampire Weekend!

in what fucking universe does haim sound like teena marie???

would be fucking ecstatic if the consensus buzz band of two thousand whatever sounded like teena marie

Discuss this picture of Haim and PM David Cameron.

let me go
let me go
you know the lady's not for turning

But doesn't it make you a little bit sad, even if you love the band, that the best 2013 can generate as an ILM consensus pick is a band most aptly compared to Teena Marie? Like I feel like you have a capacity for blind optimism that is unconscionably alien to me if this doesn't make you wince just a teeny tiny bit.

Hell no. It's better than yet another band that sounds like fucking Joy Division.

What a day. Forty hours from hitting the debt ceiling, House GOP have decided that closing the government for two weeks was to cut the salaries of their staff. ILM sez Haim sounds like Teena Marie -- and how it's a little bit sad Haim sound like Teena Marie.

I suppose I'm just feeling a little anhedonic for not experiencing paroxysms of rapturous joy at this record.

No one blames you for not experiencing paroxysms of rapturous joy at this record; we blame you for making strange comparisons.

sneering at Teena Marie will get you life though

I didn't come up with that comparison!

You kept it.

ILM fave Jim DeRogatis thinks this sounds like Wilson Phillips.

someday derogatis is gonna turn around and make you cry

I wish more bands around now cd be compared to Teena Marie tbh

― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

word

Clarke you are better than these posts.

I don't spend a lot of thought cycles on whether this is the best 2013 ILM consensus pick tbqh

Tim, I appreciate you saying that... It's been strange for me recently, because I feel like I've been enjoying music more than I have in a very long time and discovering oodles of new-to-me things, but I've had a really hard time thinking through my tastes and articulating myself. I'm sure the fact that I'm primarily interacting with ILM through my iPhone these days isn't helping. It's frustrating.

Anyhow, to add to the embarrassment, I realized this morning that I was confusing Teena Marie with someone else. I think I'll chill out on this thread for a bit until I can give a proper and open-hearted listen to the record on my regular system.

http://i.imgur.com/neDtSZ2.jpg

it's okay, i give you permission to not like Days Are Gone, a record which is awesome and cool

not necessarily because they sound like them, but haim remind me of vampire weekend and tune-yards when i hear them. maria made a cdr copy of this album from the cd and it sounded terrible in the car. strangely muffled? things usually sound good in the car. anecdotal, i know. i would have been fine with listening to it, but she was playing it pretty loud and i couldn't take it. could have been the copy she made though. i dunno. or maybe i just wasn't in the mood. its only fair that maria torture me sometimes. god knows i've done it plenty with my dumb music. she played some horrible laurie anderson song a couple of weeks ago and i almost jumped out of the car...

Prob reminds of VW cause same producer

haim singer reminds me of kd lang, esp on the slower numbers (honey & i, let me go, if i could change your mind, go slow, etc)

Clarke you are better than these posts.

― Tim F

please haim-er, don't hurt 'em

> The group these gals remind me of the most is Vampire Weekend!

Same producer.

I finally have the album :D

If I hear anything it's Eurythmics. But I am mostly just digging on it & not trying to make sense of it

The drums on this album are so fucking deep and physical

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

― how's life, Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:04 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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?

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:36 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can anyone weigh in on this?

as far as i can tell, no

Some vocals re-recorded on one of the singles, "Falling" maybe but can't remember. Saw it mentioned in an interview/article.