The album spawned six singles: 'Forever', 'Don't Save Me', 'Falling', 'The Wire', 'If I Could Change Your Mind', and 'My Song 5'. (More singers should pronounce all four syllables of the word "naturally," as Alana does in "The Wire.") Savvy recyclers committed to their own era, they make what worked yesterday work again today. Days Are Gone is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Haim, released on September 27, 2013, by Polydor Records. "Sometimes I wish I didn't miss you at all / Those days are gone," the women sing in the lustrous title track, which Haim co-wrote with the British electro-soul star Jessie Ware later, they crystallize the sentiment in the album's closer, promising, "I'll run away if you call my name."īut even if you can't get with that, there's no denying the sisters' appealingly breathy voices or their delightfully idiosyncratic delivery. To my ears, though, these songs offer a convincing re-creation of the passive-aggressive indecision endemic to the band's twentysomething peer group (and to Glenn Frey). Some critics have called the band's lyrics inconsequential, a perceived limitation that the sisters cop to in "The Wire," where Danielle sings, "You know I'm bad at communication / It's the hardest thing for me to do."
Although the interlocking funk licks in "Forever" might have led the band to extend the song past its natural life, Haim keeps it tight, which is particularly admirable at a time when Justin Timberlake appears determined to stretch the average Top 40 single to six minutes or more. But beneath those beautifully glazed keyboard textures, Haim also has songs - irresistible ones with swinging rhythms (" The Wire") and sturdy but effervescent melodies (" Don't Save Me") that no doubt make Mom and Dad proud.Īnd the sisters are as economical as they are crafty. Days Are Gone is an album of 11 stadium-worthy singles, each band member rushing to the next hook with the zeal of a solider throwing herself over a bomb to protect the battalion.
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