The hard work paid off: Days Are Gone is full of should-be hits like "The Wire," which boasts a big, fist-pumping beat and sassy guitar licks (they can only be called that). Not that Haim's approach is unstudied the trio obviously did their homework to revive and embody these sounds so perfectly, and it took them five years of recording and re-recording these songs until they had just the right mix of smoothness and immediacy. Likewise, these songs revel in that era's sometimes-cheesy flourishes without a trace of irony, and the gated drums, gleaming synths, and muted guitars that dominate Days Are Gone haven't sounded so good since their original heyday. Days Are Gone sounds all the more unusual precisely because it's so mainstream a list of their influences - Stevie Nicks, Phil Collins, En Vogue, Shania Twain - looks like a glance at the Top 40 from about 25 years before the album's release. While many of their contemporaries engaged in a contest to find the most obscure influences, and '80s revivalists sucked synth-pop and new wave dry, the Haim sisters dug up the decade's biggest, poppiest sounds and fashioned a captivating debut album out of them.
While Let Me Go continues in that vein before spiralling upwards into encircling repetitions of tripping lyrics such as "I'm not giving up, I'm giving in" and "I will wait, I will want until the day your back again" ending the album with the persistent refrain "let me go, you know I'm not one for leaving".There is nothing cool about Haim's music, and that's why it's so refreshing.
Go Slow, is unsurprisingly the most downbeat (in tempo rather than tone) song on the album but it still retains a distinctly HAIMian percussive cohesion. Exactly where I want to be #myfavoriteboysinthegame #honored #AHHHH" HAIM. This may have proven ironic as Alana tweeted the morning of the UK release: "WE ARE #3 IN THE UK ITUNES CHARTS!!!! Right behind JT and drake. It is a surprising and refreshing change-up and a different angle to the widely exposed version of the band's sound on the singles. The following track My Song 5, counter intuitively track 8 on the record, is full of Justin Timberlake-like rhythm and pulsing vocals. The synth and drumbeat in the title track, coupled with what feels like distant vocal harmonies seem to see the band look back and reconsider the time that has disappeared behind them. Call it a wacky theory but the Days (that) Are Gone may well be the 80s on the literal level. In producing the debut album inside a year, hopefully the momentum and good vibes from the summer will roll on for the trio. The top three singles are a big start and probably speak for themselves as they are largely responsible for drumming up the procession of admirers they have built up thus far. Nevertheless, these 10 songs in 40 minutes form the only apparent formula in an otherwise diverse, yet consistently toe-tapping trail of treats. The heart slightly sinks that the version you own is deemed standard in any way. There was the Jagger-swagger of The Rolling Stones, then there the slick-haired laid-back Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys and now here is a 3-in-1 bevy of LA lasses who wear shirts as hats and dedicate songs to David Cameron! The album is available in a Deluxe Edition where you can enjoy remixes on CD2 of the 'Standard' tracks that are on the first. Lose interest in the person and the battle is lost. The point is that shows like X Factor, The Voice and the hazy days of Pop Idol simply cannot churn out genuine charisma and that is why everyone forgets the winners. It is a simple formula: love the girls + love the music = love the album. They knocked it out of Glastonbury's Park Stage back in June with one of the girls wearing a shirt a fan had thrown onstage, as. These three Californian sisters just want to have a great time and most fans and onlookers were already be hooked by Alana, Danielle and Este's infectious enthusiasm before they knew anything about an album release. The cultish groundswell that has formed around HAIM is powered by personality. But often, that isn't what people remember.
What makes an album remarkable? A scorching set of tracks certainly helps. Rating: 4.5 Warning: This review may contain gushing.
0 kommentar(er)
