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Numb to know it.вЂќ This perfectly manicured LP ends with a raw moment,Дanielle singing about loneliness, вЂњmy only friend,вЂќ on the spare вЂњNight One anotherвЂ™s sides in a world where all the guys are вЂњtwo-faced but too Sibling togetherness is whatвЂ™s most fun about this band, a sense of being at For the person(s) resisting the pop rock label, please explain your reasoning. вЂњI was your friend/Now IвЂ™m only just someone you call when itвЂ™s late enough to forget,вЂќ she sings on the stripped-down stomper вЂњKept Me Crying,вЂќ a moody echo of their Eagles-steeped hit вЂњThe Wire,вЂќ delivering abjection with guts as DanielleвЂ™s sistersвЂ™ voices back her up like a gang. None of the album reviews cited in this article - AV Club, Spin, Rolling Stone, Guardian, Independent, Ohm, NME, Pitchfork - refer to Haim as indie pop. DanielleвЂ™s singing and lyric writing balance openhearted romantic affliction with tough determination вЂ“ Nicks-ian drama via McVie-style blues stoicism. Haim are such formal whiz kids, itвЂ™s easy to overlook the real emotion in their songs.

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The best moments are strung between soft rock and soul, as if Jimmy Jam or Quincy Jones helmed a late-Eighties Fleetwood Mac record: вЂњWant You BackвЂќ sounds like a love-hungry Christine McVie ballad as re-imagined by Bad-era Michael Jackson вЂњWalking AwayвЂќ is a plaintive R&B ghost вЂњLittle of Your LoveвЂќ is like Come on Over-era Shania tried to write a TLC song and it turned out awesome.

These songs donвЂ™t always explode with the sunny ebullience of the first LP, but the melodies, beats and ideas are layered and piled high, like a couch-pillow fort. ItвЂ™s taken Haim four years to deliver a follow-up LP, and you can hear the studied sense of craft all over Something to Tell You, recorded mainly in their parentsвЂ™ living room with assistance from Vampire Weekend studio-auteur-turned-pop-superproducer Rostam Batmanglij and HaimвЂ™s longtime collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid. You had to go back pretty far вЂ“ maybe to the Go-GoвЂ™sвЂ™ Beauty and the Beat вЂ“ to find California pop-rock gold so cannily sleek yet youthfully charming.

Singer-guitarist Danielle, bassist Este and keyboardist-guitarist Alana Haim were only in their early twenties, but theyвЂ™d been playing together for years, starting out as kids in a band with their parents called Rockinhaim, then cycling through folk and teen pop before landing on Days Are GoneвЂ™s unlikely retro confluence: the Fleetwood Mac of Tango in the Night, the Eagles of The Long Run, Eighties VH1 and Nineties R&B, Kate Bush and Shania Twain. sisters with an endearing backstory and a bunch of immaculately catchy songs вЂ“ blew up pretty much out of nowhere with their 2013 debut, Days Are Gone.

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