Thirty-something and newly single? Haim know exactly how you feel
There's no doubt that pop music is a woman's world right now, and more specifically a solo woman's world, belonging to the likes of Taylor, Olivia, Charli, Chappell, Billie and many more. But the three sisters of Haim are proving to be a unique threat.
'They could all certainly have been in Fleetwood Mac,' Stevie Nicks recently said about the band. It was no idle claim. Over the space of three previous albums, the LA trio – Danielle, Este and Alana Haim – have become a force to be reckoned with, crafting soaring, radio-friendly pop with close harmonies honed from years of sibling revelry.
And much like the Mac, they're not afraid of airing dirty laundry and working out personal dramas in their songs. The band's last album, 2020's Women In Music, Pt III, was particularly close to the bone, delving into grief, sadness and depression, reportedly after they were working out a lot of issues via therapy.
Throughout it all they've presented a united front, a gang of three precociously talented musicians who are undoubtedly cool, but also relatable and a little goofy. It's no coincidence that they come from the San Fernando Valley, like their frequent artwork and music video collaborator, film director Paul Thomas Anderson. Like him, they grew up in 'the Valley', where Hollywood studios meet the 'burbs, and they mine regular human hopes, dreams, foibles and failures to do their thing.
The title of their fourth album, I Quit, might at first sound like a shoulder-shrugging statement of resignation. But, in fact, it's the opposite. They've quit giving a shit, they're embracing life and they sound positively dizzy about it. It's telling that this is the first album they wrote and recorded while all three sisters, who are all in their thirties, were single. And for Danielle, who ended a long-term relationship with their regular producer Ariel Rechtshaid, it sounds like a new beginning of sorts.
'Now I own the mud that I'm standing in,' she declares in the closing track, Now It's Time. Over the previous 14 songs there is plenty of mud, but Haim aren't wallowing in it. Instead, they're acknowledging it and then shaking it off. As Stevie once sang, 'When the rain washes you clean, you'll know.'
Listen to the opening track, Gone. Over a stripped-back shuffle, Danielle lays down the law: 'I'll do whatever I want, I'll see who I want to see, I'll f--- off whenever I want, I'll be whatever I need.' Oh, did I mention that the song features a joyous sample of George Michael's Freedom! '90 and that Danielle rips out a guitar solo that cosies up to Keith Richard's famous stinging riffs from Sympathy for the Devil?
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