

The sisters’ first band was with their parents, and it was an all-covers thing with the hilarious name Rockinhaim. The Haim sisters did something similar with music, and they did it from a very early age.

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When you’re first learning how to write, teachers urge you to find sentences that you like and then to copy those sentences out longhand, so you get get a better idea of how they work, so you can start to internalize those mechanics. Their family must be over the moon.Īnd honestly, those parents get some of the credit. I’ve never met the sisters in HAIM, and I’m proud of them. They seem to have their sound totally figured out, and even the most forgettable songs have so many tiny swirling hooks that it takes weeks of listening to sniff them all out. There’s not one underwhelming song on the whole thing, and the level of shimmering craft is through the roof. Now, with their first album, they’ve made an LP of assured and fizzy pop music, one that sounds utterly of-the-moment without conforming to a single recent trend.

If you watch them onstage, the three sisters, all in their early-to-mid-20s, seem self-possessed and present in ways that much more seasoned bands are still trying to figure out - and they all seem to genuinely like each other, which is an accomplishment in itself. I practically explode with pride every time I hear my daughter atonally howl along to the Annie soundtrack, so it’s tough to conceive of what the parents of the Haim sisters must be going through. I am absolutely outing myself as a lame sentimental dad here, but I can’t think about HAIM, the young and ridiculously talented band of California sisters, without imagining how proud their parents must be.
