Album: Days Are Gone
Year: 2013
One of the most critically albums of the the current decade, Haim’s Days Are Gone seemed to epitomize the “toss it all into a blender and see what happens” ethos of the download era.
In other words, after a decade where the actual financial cost of trying any kind of music trended towards zero, musicians have a much wider breadth of influences, and music fans have less of an excuse to stay genre-bound.
I mean, you can, of course. But it was much easier to dismiss entire genres when you had to pay a whole shitload of money just to sample those genres. And what his has meant, in practice, is a lot of mongrel music that is nigh-on unclassifiable.
Like “Honey & I,” my favorite track from Days Are Gone, which is a kaleidoscope of drums fading up and down, guitars hitting when you don’t expect them to hit and sisters Alana, Danielle & Este Haim singing circles around each other.
It’s unfocused and dreamy, and spends so much time sabatoging whatever momentum it threatens to gather, it’s an extra pleasure when they kick it into a straight rave up near the end, but even that’s a bit of a feint, like they just wanted to know that sure they could do that, but, nah!
Except live, when they’re having too much fun rocking out to stop.
“Honey & I” live in Glastonbury, 2014
“Honey & I”
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