HAIM

i wish they had more songs where the other 2 sing lead, but that's nothing against her in particular, i just like bands with multiple lead singers. xp

Crazy face is by far the worst singer I think

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I actually love how they trade off leads; all of them are strong enough for it and it evokes memories of The Bangles

hahaha

I hear Miami Sound Machine in 'Forever'

― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, November 24, 2013 7:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otmfm, I just noticed this on my ride to work this morning

her faces are the fucking best

I wanted to buy tickets to their show in May but apparently it sold out in an HOUR!!

While I think it's awesome these guys exist, and the choruses are starting to get to me, nothing's yet struck me as an improvement on the late '80s-early '90s stuff they emulate.

i could totally imagine that changing by album no. 2 though

nothing's yet struck me as an improvement on the late '80s-early '90s stuff they emulate.

the fact that they're alive and doing it now is enough

i do think the SNL mix wasn't very flattering. needed more of a bottom end, i think.

nothing's yet struck me as an improvement on the late '80s-early '90s stuff they emulate.

that's a weird thing to say. first of all, they don't sound precisely like any one style of that time. second, not everything has to be as good as, say, "tango in the night," right? there's room for more in that broad vein? i mean i love late-80s freestyle but I need to listen to more than "let the music play" and "i wonder if i take you home" sometimes.

whoops, meant to quote rather than strike out. maybe i'm being subconcsiously aggressive.

lol at Este as MGM lion

2013 feels like The Year Women Break Through And Dudes Say "I Heard Stuff Like This Twenty Years Ago"

they do have a distinctive sound, and of course there's "room for more" - again, I like them and there's no reason to be defensive about digging them around me. I'm just saying that when I hear them, I think about all the freestyle etc I haven't or could be. For comparison point, the Arcade Fire has songs that I think I superior to Simple Minds/Waterboys etc. And I didn't totally feel that way until their second album.

think are superior, rather

a Haim freestyle album would be awesome

i was cool towards this album at first but it has grown on me a bunch and i'm totes infatuated now it's so great

But not HAIM freestyle rap

i'm not saying this out of smug pride over knowing their antecedents, just admitting why I don't feel much need to listen to them, despite they're obv being awesome on a lot of levels. would be eager to know what haim are offering (besides "being alive and doing it now," which means little imo when it comes to what music you play at home) that makes them more engaging for others, cuz i'd like to hook into that.

They combine the eighties stuff with harmonies in unexpected places and the occasional post-punk motif.

tbh "If I Could Change Your Mind" is the only one that screams 1987 to me. The rest is straight-er Roches.

ok "sell-out roches" might be angle i can get with

of course, this might just boil down to "taste iz taste" and nothing more to be said

on the other hand there's something funny about music that is, to a great degree anyway (and i do think it's being slightly overstated w/r/t HAIM on this thread), consciously revivalist. at first you think, "well, this is good, but what does it mean to be making [e.g.] a 'classicist' soul album in 2013. isn't that kind of redundant?" and then you listen to (say) lee fields's "faithful man," and you remember that there is always room for more, that his record is actually superior to a bunch of canonical soul LPs*, and (this is most significant I think) besides which in 200 years (should humanity still be around and listening to old music) the distinction b/t these various "waves" of a particular genre won't amount to a hill of beans.

*or let's say garage rock. i dislike a lot of garage revival stuff, but some of it is better than almost anything that came out in the 1960s.

xpost roches? i don't get it, except that they are singing sisters.

have you heard their 1989 album with the syndrums?

yeah i love plenty of consciously revivalist stuff, but it's not just because i realize more is good, but because i key into what they're doing differently - eagles of death metal earns a "lol canned heat" but there's qualities to their best stuff that're nothing like canned heat. i'm not saying that isn't the case with haim as much as what makes them distinctive has yet to make them more appealing to me. and that's a big "yet."

some day this thread will pinpoint the exact retro sound haim is aping

someday.

"Now if x = Fleetwood Mac…"

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i honestly don't get glib defensive shit like this.

the key thing about the SNL appearance is that i now know, for absolute sure, how to pronounce their name.

at least the anglicized version

ha.

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I wish HAIM sounded a little more like King Crimson Roches, I think.

i love the bass face
the drummer was making the same face and he was barely doing anything

yeah, he was giving good drummerface, but he was in the background and out of focus most of the time.

there should be a category for keyboardface. Chris Lowe perfected it: don't give face at all.

I thought Ron Mael of Sparks owned the keyboardface category.

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iow Sanpaku, otm.

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i was so excited to see them in paris this weekend and it turns out it's sold out. despite not saying so on their FB. DECEPTIVE! grrr.

The video for "The Wire" is SO EMBARRASSINGLY BAD

I heard The Long Run on the radio today and realized that it's a tiny Don Henley in her throat, not MMcD. Same weird staccato!

they are huge eagles fans