HAIM announce 10th anniversary reissue of Days Are Gone

HAIM’s debut album was a UK number 1.

HAIM have announced a 10th anniversary reissue of their Days Are Gone LP.

The multi-format release is to come with bonus tracks and remixes – adding to the original album which Live4ever praised as the, ‘work of ideas bouncing off each other at a thousand miles an hour’:

“Comparisons have often been made to the girls’ obsession with the song and the dynamic of Fleetwood Mac – an approach to the process which easily forgets that the latter leaned on a blizzard of inter personal subterfuge and cocaine for inspiration.”

No-one’s suggesting that this has played any part in the process, but by the time that same stimulant had grown up into the Eighties, it was helping to make the kind of music that sounded like a Californian night, the glossy neon shadows of ‘Don’t Save Me‘ and ‘If I Could Change Your Mind‘ every bit here as gorgeously disposable.

“If the latter is the trio being as unashamedly direct as possible, opener ‘Falling‘ repeats the dose but wraps one of those laconic, Clapton-lite guitar riffs around the ‘just wanna have fun’ vibe, guilty pleasures for those who lack the time for remorse.”

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