The EP received a lot of attention from the music press and the general public, and following a successful gig at the South by Southwest festival in March 2012 Haim signed a deal with Polydor Records in the United Kingdom in June 2012.
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Having played shows supporting artists such as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, the Henry Clay People, and Kesha, Haim's first release was a three-song EP titled Forever which was made available on February 10, 2012, as a free download on their website for a brief period. Youngest sister Alana spent one year in college before dropping out to join the band with her sisters. It was after Danielle had played with other artists and Este had graduated that the sisters decided that they wanted pursue their career as Haim more seriously. She has also toured as part of Scarlet Fever, the all-female backing band for CeeLo Green. The Strokes' singer Julian Casablancas came to see one of Lewis's shows on that tour, and he in turn asked Danielle to play guitar and percussion on his own solo tour. Upon graduating from high school Danielle was asked to play drums for the opening act on one of Jenny Lewis's tours, which led to Lewis asking Danielle to be her guitarist on the following tour. Este was studying at UCLA and graduated in 2010 with a degree in Ethnomusicology, completed in two years instead of the customary five. For the next five years, Haim played local venues, but did not take things further as all three sisters were busy with other projects. In 2006 they decided to form their own band. Īs they grew older, the girls became more interested in incorporating pop and contemporary R&B into their music. Shortly after the band's appearance at the 2005 Kids' Choice Awards, Este and Danielle opted out of their contracts. Their song "Always There in You" was included on the soundtrack to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, while "Valli Nation" appeared on the 2005 Kids' Choice Awards soundtrack. Danielle and Este were members of the Valli Girls, an all-female band from Southern California that was signed to Columbia Records. While they were still at school their parents formed a family band called Rockinhaim to play cover versions at local charity fairs, with Israeli-born father Mordechai ("Moti") on drums and mother Donna on guitar. The rest of us are just going to kick back in the sun with Days Are Gone and some piña coladas.The three women grew up in the San Fernando Valley, listening to the 1970s classic rock and Americana records of their music-loving parents. The purists might think Haim have let the studio sessions rub the edges of their raw talent. Still, it's hard to celebrate the album’s listenability and also complain about it sounding too polished. An early release of "The Wire," for example, sounded like it could have been cut in the ’70s, whereas the new, ultra-modern mix simply purloins Joan Jett’s glam-rock stomp. The other mild disappointment is that the record’s three producers (including Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford) have largely gone for sparklingly clean edits of the songs, sacrificing the enjoyable roughness of earlier, more riotous takes. The two closing numbers, "Let Me Go" and "Running If You Call My Name," allow the darkness that otherwise lurks in the background of the album to come to the fore, and fail to hit the same pitch-perfect pop notes as a result. More than that, the title track sounds like Des’ree’s "You Gotta Be" if it had been produced by Rick James-catchy as hell, in other words. "My Song 5" is the sort of in-your-face female empowerment anthem Beyoncé would go jogging to. Not only does it contain a handful of the most radio-friendly songs of the last few years ("Forever," "Falling") it packs in some fantastically crunchy R&B bangers as well. In this, they’ve been pretty damn successful. They’re a band that actively wants to make a great pop record, without getting all Kanye West about it.
Haim’s rock-pop sound (think Tango In The Night-era Fleetwood Mac) is bright and breezy-just like the girls themselves, who’ve managed to keep laughing and joking through the exponentially building hype. This lightness of tone is a large part of the appeal of Days Are Gone, the band’s debut album. Even their most bitterly romantic songs like "Better Off" and "Forever" are funkified to the point where the nights spent crying that inspired them are distant memories-or at least have been repressed by piña coladas. They’re taking it easy: something they do a lot of. Californian sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim appear on their album cover sitting in deck chairs, wearing sunglasses.
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