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Haim days are gone ep
Haim days are gone ep






haim days are gone ep

“They take care of me like I’m their little sister,” Alana says of the Mumfords, with whom Haim again will be playing support for later this year.Īsk the girls to describe specific tracks on Days Are Gone and they quickly fire back: “If I told you I’d have to kill you,” Este deadpans. Still, as Alana explains, it was hard to turn down opening-slot offers from groups they love, specifically Florence and the Machine and Mumford & Sons. To that end, the girls have now been more selective when lining up future tours. Then finally we realized we were playing too much.” The sisters credit Casablancas specifcially for advising them that playing too many live shows is not the answer. “The first five years we just played every show we could play in L.A.,” Alana recalls. Since their first show as a group, which took place on July 7th, 2007, Haim have been gigging extensively. The sisters all agree though that singer-lead guitarist Danielle, the quietist of the lot – she barely muttered a word during our entire time together – and a former touring guitarist for Cee Lo Green and the Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas, is the production guru of the group and the bandmember who sweats every last detail.ĭays Are Gone, produced by Ariel Rechtshaid (Usher, Vampire Weekend) and James Ford (Florence and the Machine, Arctic Monkeys), is an album years in the making. To prove this point, she estimates the band recorded their new single “The Wire” upwards of 20 times. “We’re pretty much the biggest perfectionists,” offers Alana. The group credits album delays both to their heavy touring regiment as well as their obsessive streak in the studio. “I think if we could we’d put it out tomorrow,” Este says of the 11-track album, which the group recorded over the better of a year in Los Angeles during gaps from their non-stop touring schedule. People dangle a lot of stuff in front of you…there were times where we were like, ‘Shit, we should just put it out already.'”īut now with the album having an official release date – September 30th, to be exact – the Haim girls are more than ready for it to be unleashed upon the public. “It took a lot of strength for us to say we wanted to wait. “Everyone was like, ‘Are you gonna put it out? Are you gonna do it?'” chatty guitarist-keyboardist Alana, the youngest member of the trio at 21, says of the band’s forthcoming debut album, Days Are Gone. The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know Yet while many groups would be quick to capitalize on such of-the-moment hype – the sort of relentessly positive chatter that’s surrounded Haim ever since they released their critically praised Forever EP in February of last year – the trio made a point to take their time perfecting their forthcoming debut album. (So hot, in fact, that Lollapalooza thought it wise to push back their Saturday set to later in the day.) Their harmony-laced sound is drawing comparisons to Fleetwood Mac, Wilson Phillips and yes, even TLC. Why wouldn’t she want to? Haim are currently one of the hottest young rock acts on the planet. “I will do this until my tits are at my knees.”

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“Ya know what? I don’t give a fuck,” she adds. She pauses, realizing that may have come off a bit well, complain-y and corrects herself. “What’s a day off?” says Este, 27, the bassist, eldest and most crass member of the group. They’ve been in Chicago since Wednesday, but the sibling rockers, whose music has drawn rave reviews from the Strokes, Rihanna and Mumford & Sons, have had little time to take in their surroundings. It’s Saturday afternoon at Lollapalooza, and the Haim sisters – Este, Alana and Danielle – are sitting backstage.








Haim days are gone ep