We got to work with some amazing producers, though, and they really taught me that being in the studio can be fun.īut I really love playing live. I didn’t know how fun it could be until we started working on it. I don’t like the repetition and the re-recording. Before we went into the studio, I was very vocal about how much I don’t like the studio. HAIM: I really love playing live, but making this record taught me that making records can actually be fun. Do you think your live energy is captured on the album? STEREOGUM: I caught your set at Oslo’s Øya Festival and you put on an incredibly fun live show. This was really the best summer of my life. We’ve always wanted to travel and see the world together and we’re getting to do that and it’s been incredible. We love playing festivals, but we’re also having fun. I went to a festival that had a tent that was all candy … rows and rows of candy. HAIM: A good festival means good food, good people and, really, I like quirky. STEREOGUM: You hit the festival circuit pretty hard this summer. We talked to Este Haim about the new album, stagediving in a dress, and her plans to sell real estate if this whole rock n’ roll thing doesn’t work out. The 11 tracks on the album, which includes last summer’s buzzy sun-kissed hit “Forever” along with the “ Falling” and “ The Wire,” captures the band’s ability to make irresistible pop songs with serious hooks and percussion that is hard to not dance to. They are rectifying that when their debut LP, Days Are Gone, comes out on September 30 via Columbia Records.
All this before they ever put out an album. After we named HAIM a Band To Watch last year, they’ve been featured on dozens of Best Of lists, won the BBC’s Sound Of 2013 award, and earned enviable opening slots on tours with Phoenix, Florence And The Machine, Mumford And Sons, and Vampire Weekend.
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An undeniable favourite at the Glastonbury Festival (as no strangers to the big stage, following stadium and arena shows with Mumford & Sons and Florence & The Machine), the band return to the UK later this Summer, with a European winter tour to be announced imminently.The three Haim sisters - Este (25), Danielle (23) and Alana Haim (21) - plus drummer Dash Hutton, have spent the last year churning out some of the best power-pop around and playing must-see live shows around the world. Seductive and smart, HAIM have spent the past 18 months relentlessly touring the globe, building on all the early praise and winning over legions of new fans wherever they play. Another regular live track, ‘Honey & I’ is one of the many standout tracks on a record that is more than simply the sum of its parts. The sultry ‘If I Could Change Your Mind’ is the first of four brand new songs that HAIM are yet to have aired live, ‘Days Are Gone’, ‘My Song 5’, and ‘Running If You Call My Name’. ‘The Wire’, a huge live favourite and forthcoming single, receives a slick production but loses none of the energy and passion that makes it so enticing on stage. Opening on their 2013 Spring EP release ‘Falling’, it’s smartly followed by the song that introduced them back in March 2012, ‘Forever’. Sharing all the songwriting between themselves, ‘Days Are Gone’ is a record that features songs that stretches right back to when the band first formed (Forever, The Wire, Let Me Go), and songs written in the latter stages of 2012. Plenty has already been made of the band’s R&B influences, but it’s a shimmering guitar-fuelled, West Coast pop that surfaces across the 11 tracks on the LP. Having performed live together on stages from a very early age, it’s that innate understanding of each other’s musicianship that acts as both the strength and catalyst behind everything the band do.
‘Days Are Gone’ is a record that wrestles with that early live potential and fully realises it, showcasing the breadth of their collective and individual talents. It’s a record that the band refused to let go of until they were 100% confident with it, and is all the stronger for their patience.
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Following a series of LA based studio sessions with producers Ariel Rechtsaid (Major Lazer, Vampire Weekend, Usher) and James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence & The Machine, Simian Mobile Disco), San Fernando Valley sisters HAIM have emphatically taken all the strengths of their live shows and transformed their songs into nuggets of golden pop.īeginning the year as the BBC Sound of 2013 winners, off the back of two limited edition EPs and a handful of sold-out UK live dates, HAIM holed themselves up in the studio and spent the next few months perfecting a record that is arguably one of the most hotly anticipated in years.
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