However, after finishing high school, Danielle Haim was soon lured back into the musical fold. She gained valuable experience touring with Jenny Lewis and as part of Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas’ touring band before joining CeeLo Green’s all-girl backing group.
Reuniting with her sisters, Danielle formed Haim and the trio self-released their debut EP, Forever, in February 2012.
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Haim soon expanded to a quartet when drummer Dash (son of Three Dog Night’s Danny) Hutton performed with the girls at the EP’s release party at Los Angeles’ Bootleg Theater and took up permanent residence behind the kit.Ī series of successful shows at the prestigious SXSW Festival in Texas led to Haim signing a UK deal with Polydor in June 2013. Profile-raising transatlantic support slots followed, with the band joining Mumford And Sons’ Gentlemen Of The Road US tour and then sharing stages with Florence + The Machine in the UK in December 2013. Haim initially built their reputation upon their hard-edged, guitar-driven live sound, yet their 2014 debut, Days Are Gone, was a measured, melodic affair, with the songs’ already beguiling hooks given a modern, R&B-flavored pop sheen by co-producers Ariel Rechtshaid (Madonna, No Doubt) and former Arctic Monkeys’ deskman James Ford. Released on September 27, 2014, Days Are Gone quickly found favor with the critics.
The album has since been certified gold in the UK, having also bequeathed three Top 30 hits courtesy of “Falling,” “If I Could Change Your Mind,” and the lush, seductive “The Wire.” The New York Times declared the record to be “as convincing as any major-label rock album this year” and detected mainstream pop of the quality of “early Madonna, the erotic power of Pat Benatar the breathlessness of Sheena Easton.”įans on both sides of the Atlantic readily agreed, with Days Are Gone entering the US Billboard 200 at No.6 and debuting at No.1 in the UK. Haim has continued to attract acclaim, receiving a Best New Artist nomination at the 2015 Grammy Awards and contributing to tracks on Primal Scream’s Chaosmosis. In a recent NME interview, Este Haim hinted that their second album, Something To Tell You, would be “modern, exciting and fearless,” and its arrival certainly confirmed Haim to be a band for whom only the sky is the limit.After what feels like forever, the debut Haim album is finally here. It will come as a shock to fans of their live show, won over by their raw mix of blues guitar, close vocal harmony and big sister Este’s ‘bass face’. ‘Days Are Gone’ comprises some of their best live tracks (‘Forever’, ‘The Wire’, ‘Let Me Go’) and some songs that haven’t been played live (‘If I Could Change Your Mind’, ‘Days Are Gone’, ‘My Song 5’) and lacquers them all with a thick coat of studio gloss. Part of the reason the wait has seemed so long is that Este, Danielle and Alana hit the jackpot relatively early. They won people over with their debut EP ‘Forever’ and some rapturously received performances at 2012’s SXSW. Their label, Polydor, no doubt sensing they might have hit the jackpot too, wheeled in big-shot producers Ariel Rechtshaid (Major Lazer, Vampire Weekend, Usher) and James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Simian Mobile Disco), who added more bells and whistles than you’ll find in the Hamleys window display at Christmas. By the time Haim released their big summer single, ‘The Wire’, it had mutated into a hammy slice of country-pop, complete with string section and Auto-Tuned coda. Puzzled bloggers noted that it sounded like Shania Twain. Haim are no strangers to pop’s transformative powers, nor to the heavy-handed approach of major record labels.
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