![]() How about we give our greatest living songwriter some respect?ħ) Arctic Monkeys – AM I liked this album. Great album.Ĩ) Paul McCartney – New Yeah, he’s old. What? Doesn’t count as a 2013 album? No shit Sherlock.ĩ) Babyshambles – Sequel to the Prequel Look, I’m not the biggest fan of Pete Doherty. Should be required listening by everyone. (In no particular order… although I’ll label them 1-10 anyway)ġ0) Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds I think my most listened to album of 2013 was Jeff Wayne’s ‘War of the Worlds’. So, in a much less professional manner than Kent Green, I’ll list some of the music that made my 2013. Yes, I don’t own any of it – I’m just ‘renting’ – but listening to anything is better than listening to nothing. I haven’t listened to so much music in years. I have speakers all over the house wirelessly sucking on those binary jewels. My year of 100101100101s (that’s ones and zeros – music as data). I still listen to my vinyl but this has definitely been my year of streaming. I spent 2012 listening to CDs and vinyl… but even then, only a limited amount. Pretty much encapsulates everything I wanted to say, bar some of his music choices (which I haven’t heard!). Haim seem to want the world to know that despite fame-and perhaps despite new tricks-the core of this band remains the same.I thought I’d write a little piece about some of my favourite music of the year… but I gotta say, this post: But the fact that the song is so over-produced puts the other new piece of music Haim has released, an unadorned live recording of a slow-building song called “Right Now,” in a new light. In any case, the song’s chorus and sense of gathering momentum should deliver the familiar thrill fans were looking for, regardless of the studio gunk. The song sounds retro regardless-and that’s a good thing, as time travel is one of the primary pleasures of this band. Or maybe Rechtshaid’s production is trying to make Haim seem less nostalgic than before. Maybe this touch has something to do with the lyrical theme of lost love, which is already amply conveyed by the singers. The band’s done playing, but the producer’s not done messing around a helium-inhaled swarm of voices zip by, like the wails of a ghost being exorcised from a room. Least forgivably, he uses the most over-used gimmick of recent pop music-flagrantly manipulated vocals in the background, existing less for harmony’s sake than to evoke a futuristic or whimsical mood-throughout the song, most notably in its closing moment. It’s that Rechtshaid’s digital stew seems to bubble independently of what the band is doing. It’s not only that there’s a lot going on, and that Haim songs are bustling enough without extra elements. ![]() All this machine really needs to succeed in its task is a memorable vocal phrase to repeat and modulate until it seems as familiar as a folk standard, and they’ve hit upon one here with a chorus full of yearning and pitter-patter. But just as important to their act is a sense of spring-loaded complexity, with the three sisters locking together syllables (often in odd, little rapid-fire phrases) and beats (a skittering high hat, a trademark of Days Are Gone, returns here). The single released today, from their forthcoming album Something to Tell You (July 7), keeps Haim’s remarkably distinct sound intact, though there is something-perhaps worryingly-that’s different.Īs always, the Haim blend involves ’80s and ’90s pop radio elements: In “Want You Back” you may hear echoes of Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Wilson Phillips, and, thanks to some quality I can’t quite identify, even Def Leppard. Haim fans-whose ranks include mainstreamers U2, Taylor Swift, and Hillary Clinton but also alt types like Pitchfork and Grimes-wanted them back, and now they have them back. The title “Want You Back” might be a nod from Haim to listeners who, in the four years since the Los Angeles trio released their debut Days Are Gone, have craved the return of the last new rock band that the mythical “everybody” can love.
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