It will come as a shock to fans of their live show, won over by their raw mix of blues guitar, close vocal harmony and big sister Este’s ‘bass face’. ‘Days Are Gone’ comprises some of their best live tracks (‘Forever’, ‘The Wire’, ‘Let Me Go’) and some songs that haven’t been played live (‘If I Could Change Your Mind’, ‘Days Are Gone’, ‘My Song 5’) and lacquers them all with a thick coat of studio gloss. Part of the reason the wait has seemed so long is that Este, Danielle and Alana hit the jackpot relatively early. The Haim siblings played in their parents27 cover band as kids Nearly two years of touring has built high interest in the group27s debut After a seemingly endless summer, Haim is primed for its. They won people over with their debut EP ‘Forever’ and some rapturously received performances at 2012’s SXSW. Their label, Polydor, no doubt sensing they might have hit the jackpot too, wheeled in big-shot producers Ariel Rechtshaid (Major Lazer, Vampire Weekend, Usher) and James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Simian Mobile Disco), who added more bells and whistles than you’ll find in the Hamleys window display at Christmas. By the time Haim released their big summer single, ‘The Wire’, it had mutated into a hammy slice of country-pop, complete with string section and Auto-Tuned coda. Puzzled bloggers noted that it sounded like Shania Twain. Haim are no strangers to pop’s transformative powers, nor to the heavy-handed approach of major record labels.
Days Are Gone cover far more bases though- its rhythm tracks and beats are rooted in the trios beloved 90s R&B, as well as the soft-rock theyre often accused of. The three sisters were first enlisted by their mum and dad to play classic rock and Motown covers in the family band at children’s hospitals and deli stores at their home in the San Fernando Valley. If you’ve ever seen Haim live you can say with some surety that theyre a ‘rock band’- guitar, bass, drums, riffs, jams and solos all present. When Danielle and Este were scouted to play in manufactured girl group Valli Girls, they were prescribed hair extensions and caricature personalities and made to play teen-pop (see the toe-curling videos on YouTube). Unsurprisingly, they quit, and Danielle later earned her leather jacket as a touring guitarist for Julian Casablancas.
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Their early, critically adored mix of rock’n’roll guitars and ’90s R&B harmonies is toned down in favour of straight power pop, full of ’80s flourishes.
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