HAIM

Making the bass face the way she does is a form of working out. Of exercise. Go ahead, try to do what she does. It takes effort and lower face muscles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J2I2huV6lE

No news, I just wanted to bump the thread to say that I miss Haim.

haimweh

Is there a new album expected this year at all?

have they released anything since the album ?
I find it a bit weird that bands and artists don't release singles or just tracks every now and then considering how easy it is nowadays... I would, just for the fun and excitement !

they toured their stuff a little bit too long and burnt themselves out afaict

industry red tape, I would guess. (fwiw I still half-expect a comeback single with max martin this year)

but surely, in our "new" musical environment, it would be interesting, cheap and good for the artists' popularity (and labels) to release tracks more regularly, without an album (what used to be called singles !) instead of waiting 2y between every album.
Drake did that with "Hotline Bling" for instance and it didn't harm him !

shit happens

I thought the same regarding Grimes as it seemed she had the perfect profile, enthousiasm (and freedom) to enjoy releasing stuff regularly... but apparently not !

that said, Grimes did release a couple of tracks (but that's still not much in 3 years).

after some elementary Instagram stalking it appears that HAIM were in the studio in December

woo!

HAIM were in an issue of Bon Appetit where they were drinking champagne with QT

it was really weird

there's a new corrs album to keep you going until the new one from the indie corrs comes along

Thanks, but no thanks.

:)

after some elementary Instagram stalking it appears that HAIM were in the studio in December

I would be very surprised if there's not an album this year (hopefully sooner rather than later), 3 years is a pretty standard album cycle length (though many seem to be increasingly taking 4 years or more these days?)

They said they'd written a bunch on tour in 2014 and seem to have spent most of 2015 in the studio, which seems fairly normal. Artists may now have more freedom to release things more regularly outside the standard album cycle stuff but it doesn't seem that any really want to any more than before.

it could be done but record label is waiting til some time like september when big releases come out

or maybe they will do a beyonce and release it out of the blue.

Anyway, we'll always have the Calvin Harris track.

Did they play any new stuff when they were touring with T. Swift last summer?

only the Calvin Harris track

I know Ariel Rechtshaid is also involved in production on that Calvin Harris track but it doesn't sound as good as the Days Are Gone material (regardless of the actual song). Whenever the rock instruments filter through it sounds good... I'm assuming Ariel did the backbone of the track with Haim elsewhere and then Calvin Harris added the synth stabs that cheapen the whole thing.

http://pitchfork.com/news/65556-haim-cover-princes-i-would-die-4-u-debut-two-new-songs-watch/

Prince cover is damn good.

Can't wait to hear these new songs properly, but my initial impression of them is v positive!

New album in the Autumn

http://pitchfork.com/news/66022-haim-hope-to-release-new-album-in-the-fall

https://twitter.com/HAIMtheband/status/856493116211081216

Cool. I hope they release an album of drum collaborations with Phil Collins.

hum. new album on the 27th !
at last after almost 4y...
It's a pretty long time for a second album !

(eheh, I just noticed I basically wrote the same thing last year... time flies !)

that drums teaser is not great, though... they're not REALLY good at it !

Lol not at all

they should've just used the last five seconds

Eh, none of them are drummers, they did fine.

sure and it's all good fun just kind of weird to do a video like that in an online landscape full of videos with impressive amateur drummers

I'm not sure if the video was supposed to be impressive or fun, perhaps neither

I just assumed they were recording overdubs for a track.

Pretty sure that's exactly how they recorded drums on the last album too.

aaah well then I just missed the point!
nm

I doubt it's a recording session since they don't wear headphones. Plus there seem to be a special effort in the lighting/set up.
anyway, I'll be glad to listen to their new album.

i don't rly like the song so much but this P.T. Anderson video is really excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1LLWHroWgA

hm yeah that is kinda whatever

there was a song in there?

very weird single choice

loved their debut album but i have pretty low expectations for the new one

I think the song has potential if they get the production right. I mean, it's nothing we haven't heard from them before but nothing wrong with that, imo.

Do we know who is involved in the production of this album?

ariel rechtshaid is credited in the video description

anyway, nice demo i guess, could use some embellishment