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Oct 8, 201311 tracks of stick-to-the-roof-of-your-eardrums music that sounds all at once immediate and laid-back.
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Oct 4, 2013Savvy recyclers committed to their own era, they make what worked yesterday work again today.
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Oct 4, 2013Days Are Gone, their long-in-the-baking debut album, is properly great, sounding effortless and breezy in a way that only something worked over like a jewel can.
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Oct 4, 2013HAIM bounces from strength to strength on a pop rock journey that hits on nearly 20 years of touch points.
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Oct 3, 2013Because the surface is so smooth, it takes a listen or two to discover how little depth lies beneath it.
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Oct 3, 2013It’s a taut, punchy album full of winning charm, and blessedly free of cynicism and ego.
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Oct 2, 2013With the triumvirate of googly-eyed rhythms, sinfully catchy melodies and a breeziness that seems only fitting, they’ve served up one of the most auspicious debuts of the year.
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UncutOct 1, 2013Hook-heavy hummability abounds, but most interesting are the newer "My Song" and "Let Me Go"--darkly atmospheric chunks of contemporary R&B/Hip-pop. [Oct 2013, p.68]
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Oct 1, 2013The LP is frontloaded with could be Top 10 hits, leaving the back half of the album awash in afterthoughts.
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Oct 1, 2013Not quite the panacea that will usher in world peace, Days Are Gone is still a remarkable effort.
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Oct 1, 2013It could be an overstatement to say that if Days Are Gone is any indication of what’s to come for Haim, the band is set.
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Oct 1, 2013This is frivolous, immaculate music.
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Oct 1, 2013It’s not revolutionary, life-changing ‘high art’ but right here, right now Haim’s sassy, enthusiastic, ‘one for all’ joie de vivre feels freshly invigorating, infectious ...basically, a drop o’ the good stuff.
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Sep 30, 2013Thanks to its overwhelming and triumphant exuberance and the care with which it embraces its palette of influences, Haim has made itself impossible to hate.
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Sep 30, 2013Days Are Gone's is so polished that Haim could easily be seen as clinical and lifeless, but their lighthearted attitude complements their recording rigor.
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Sep 30, 2013Their charming debut recalls the dancy side of Eighties Top 40 radio as an AstroTurf Eden of chewy synths, neon-cheese guitar quake and slick, airy melodies.
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Sep 30, 2013Those allergic to smooth pop-rock may find Days Are Gone hard going. Paradoxically, given this is an album of clever mash-ups, Haim's one straight-up R&B tune might actually be their best.
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Sep 30, 2013A debut album that could pass for a greatest-hits collection, Days Are Gone will provide musical comfort food for some, and possibly an introduction to irony-free pop for others.
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Sep 30, 2013It balances expectations with mystery, aligning their identity with a roulette of vantage points.
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Sep 30, 2013For now, Haim are a rock band who've made one of the best pop albums you'll hear all year.
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Sep 27, 2013Sure, the sequencing could have used some tweaking, but Days Are Gone is a commendable effort that manages to answer all of the hype.
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Sep 27, 2013The music is propulsive and upbeat, but executed with the almost blasé confidence of people who sound like they have nothing to prove.
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Sep 26, 2013For now, Days Are Gone makes them seem an increasingly rare thing: a guitar band heralded as a sure thing, who still feel like a sure thing once you've heard their debut album.
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MojoSep 25, 2013Much of Days Are Gone packs bubblegum snare, toe-stubbing synth bass, and contemporised '80s pop trappings that evoke everything from Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche 85 to Laura Brannigan's Self Control. [Oct 2013, p.95]
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Sep 25, 2013There’s a sheen to much of Days Are Gone that can prevent you from delving further. But it’s a minor quibble on the whole, chiefly because the songs are strong enough to keep pulling you in for repeated listens, each hook burying itself deeper and deeper.
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Sep 25, 2013Overall, Days Are Gone showcases the band’s individual strengths that have been pulled together to create a collective group with intensity and depth of potential.
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Sep 25, 2013Days Are Gone confirms what everybody already knew in fabulous style; that Haim are the band to shout about.
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Sep 25, 2013Haim neither flinch nor blush in their directness and neither should you in enjoying Days Are Gone for what it is: unabashed fun.
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Sep 25, 2013As was the case with Jinx, Days Are Gone benefits from limiting its affections to a single golden era of its genre. It gives the album a sense of cohesiveness when it would have been so easy to create a tangled mess (cf. Everything Everything), so it’s to the band’s great credit that they’ve made something so pleasantly easy to listen to.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 195 out of 208
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Mixed: 9 out of 208
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Negative: 4 out of 208
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