★★★★★
The LA-based Haim sisters brought together an extra-familial drummer, some crafty producers and a heap of '90s nostalgia for their debut album, Days Are Gone . Expect handclaps, comparisons of fire to desire and ballad singing--the latter on "The Wire" especially, which owes a lot to Shania Twain. But thanks to some slick production--including the minds behind the new Vampire Weekend and Arctic Monkey albums--most of the record's re-appropriations sound fresh...
- www.relix.com
2013-10-25
★★★★★
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Record Label: Polydor Records
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Music hits. It just does. When and where and how and why are irrelevant when a piece of music integrates itself unapologetically into your life. As Internet music listeners, we have never been more in control of that which hits our eardrums. But every now and then we have no choice, for the better...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-10-09
★★★★★
It's easy, even tempting, to write off HAIM as a flavor of the season--the songs are too catchy to just be a flavor of the month. Their catchy choruses, pop song structures, and breezy, care-free sound and lyrics make them feel like an old friend--or rather a group of old friends named Stevie, Lindsey, Christine, John, and Mick, or maybe T-Boz, Left Eye, and Chilli...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-10-07
★★★★★
Release Date: September 30, 2013 Music hits. It just does. When and where and how and why are irrelevant when a piece of music integrates itself unapologetically into your life. As Internet music listeners, we have never been more in control of that which hits our eardrums. But every now and then we have no choice, for the better. We are nothing but helpless recipients of amazing, substantial tunes that won't, nay, can't remove themselves from our lives...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-10-08
★★★★★
Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac. (Repeat ad nauseum.) While much has been said about HAIM (including comparisons to TLC and the use of the puzzling phrase "esoteric pop"), it's Stevie Nicks and gang who have seemed to haunt nearly every piece of press since we first wrapped our ears around the Forever EP in February of last year. Sure, there is grain of truth in comparing the Los Angeles-based sister act's sun-kissed harmonies to, say, Mirage...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-10-05
★★★★★
The three long-haired sisters of L.A.'s Haim look as if they're from the 1960s, crib lyrics from the 1970s and prize musical tricks from the 1980s. Yet the trio's major-label debut, "Days Are Gone," may be the freshest-sounding album you'll hear all year. How does that work?
Background and context both figure into it...
- www.latimes.com
2013-10-05
★★★★★
There's something suspiciously perfect about Haim. As a pop proposition they're an ongoing alchemical reaction that ticks too many boxes to not be subject to the meddling of some weird higher power. If there was a god of Smash Hits, their hand is definitely at play. Three girls. Sisters. Hipster-level style and LA cool, and a ready made story. On its own that's enough to make the average major label A&R wet themselves. But there's more, and this is the important stuff: They're great...
- thequietus.com
2013-10-05
★★★★★
HAIM's debut, Days Are Gone, is an impeccably crafted fusion of late-'80s and '90s pop influences, with the most innovative tracks integrating rock n' roll staples with lighter, seemingly incongruous references to bubble-gum pop and girl-group R&B: "The Wire" opens with a rallying stomp-clap rhythm and a teasingly spare electric guitar line, building to a staccato, string-laden chorus that recalls the disco-inflected hook of Carly Rae Jepson's ubiquitous earworm "Call Me Maybe," while "My Song...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-10-04
★★★★★
The internet made music more accessible, but radio still has power to influence our collective consciousness. It can anoint an artist as commercially viable or shape mainstream trends, pushing dance divas into David Guetta's pitch-shifted ghetto or rappers to imitate Drake's singsongy flow. Haim's debut, Days Are Gone, is influenced by the radio in the best way possible...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-10-03
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