III‘s biggest strength, aside from the vulnerability, is that all of the songs don’t sound the same-something that cannot be said for Days Are Gone or Something to Tell You.

The band’s penchant for inserting random noises in their songs, such as a gasp or even a fax machine, was never revolutionary (considering Billie Eilish has since made an entire industry out of it), but it was strange and a bit off-putting at times. Still, the real growth on the record is that their “experimental” sounds don’t sound very, well, experimental anymore-they sound distinctly and authentically HAIM, which is not something that their previous material fully possessed. The vulnerable and confessional lyrics aid this growth and transition, reminiscent of Maggie Rogers’ Heard It in a Past Life. III is just as eclectic in sound as Days Are Gone or Something to Tell You, but this time around the group feels more confident in their delivery as if they are symbolically letting us know that this is their moment. III, named after a dreaded question the singers constantly receive asking what it feels like to be “women in music”. So they decided to capture their feelings in a jar of sunlight and release Women in Music Pt. “The album itself was made with this feeling of like, ‘Let’s just put shit on tape, so let’s just roll with it,'” continued Danielle. “Like, I don’t want to promote anything right now.” The latest HAIM album was ultimately postponed until August, but then the sisters decided that there’s no time like the present. ’ And it felt so fucking wrong,” Danielle said. “The label sent us something like, ‘Hey, can you post about this? Something promoting. They settled on an April release, but then COVID-19 happened.

The group’s third LP was initially projected for a winter release, but the singers ultimately decided that their new music, much like that of their previous material, has a quality to it that most of us associate with summer. The result of these personal traumas was HAIM writing their way through it, resulting in the first three singles “ Summer Girl,” “ Now I’m In It,” and “ Hallelujah“-all released last year, before the world flipped upside down. As for Danielle Haim, she had descended into a deep depression one that was characterized by her sisters and bandmates as robbing her of her energy source and the life behind her eyes. Este was told by her doctors that she might need to change careers, as touring was having devastating effects on her body as a result of her Type 1 diabetes. When we came back from tour, it hit us all, collectively, at the same time.” For instance, Alana Haim had never properly grieved a close friend that she had lost in a car accident right before the promotional period for their first album Days Are Gonebegan. “A lot of the shit that we were going through since 2012. “There was a lot of stuff that, collectively, we weren’t dealing with head-on,” said Este Haim in the band’s recent profile for Vulture.

III immediately feel like something that is intimately and uniquely theirs. In their place, we are treated to a brand new dose of vulnerable lyrics and refined production, which makes Women in Music Pt. The group’s easy, breezy summer afternoon melodies are still there, but they’ve lost a lot of the gimmicks. But this time around, something’s different. At this point, we’re used to the band’s tendency to shift between multiple different genres-sometimes in the same song-ranging anywhere from soft rock to pop-rock, to experimental synthpop. “Give me a miracle, I just want out from this / I’ve done my share of helping with your defense,” HAIM sing on “Los Angeles”, the opener to their third studio album, Women in Music Pt.

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