Forever also contains the most memorable chorus on the album, a sprightly contrast to the desperate, bass-heavy verses. Guitars jangle a bit more, as this one is more rock than R&B, and the lovelorn lyrics, for all their cheesiness, are incredibly endearing. Fortunately, it gets better from there, as Forever quickly proves. In other words, Falling is a pretty good idea of what Este, Danielle, and Alana do. That’s the longest song on the album, at 4:32. The palm mutes and slap bass that open Falling are an immediately enticing backdrop to sing-speak vocals that make way for a prototypical HAIM chorus, “don’t stop, no, I’ll never give up/I’ll never look back, never give up/and if it gets rough it’s time to get rough,” as the sisters begin to harmonize, increase their tempo, and employ tom-heavy drums (by non-sister Dash Hutton) before closing the song off in a typical pop-heavy fashion. There are four new songs here, and only the aforementioned My Song 5 is better than the old material.īut the uninitiated are in for a bit of a treat. Throw in Don’t Save Me, Falling, and The Wire, which have been around since last November, February, and July, respectively, and Days Are Gone begins to sound a tad too familiar. A top placement in BBC’s “Sound of 2013” brought attention to their two EPs from 2012, which contain four songs- Forever, Honey & I, Go Slow, and Let Me Go-of this 11 song LP. Perhaps the most disappointing thing about Days Are Gone is a direct result of the hype that surrounded the band for close to a year prior to the album’s release. But the pop guise and choruses occasionally pass “catchy” to approach “memorable” and the more unique verses, which feature prominent basslines and R&B influences as well as the song-of-the year-contender My Song 5, elevate Days Are Gone to something more noteworthy. Their catchy choruses, pop song structures, and breezy, care-free sound and lyrics make them feel like an old friend-or rather a group of old friends named Stevie, Lindsey, Christine, John, and Mick, or maybe T-Boz, Left Eye, and Chilli. It’s easy, even tempting, to write off HAIM as a flavor of the season-the songs are too catchy to just be a flavor of the month.
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