It paid off: the album garnered wide acclaim from fans and critics alike and received the band’s first Album of the Year nomination at the Grammys, with the group also getting a nod in the Best Rock Performance category. Once you let go of the proverbial arrow, you have no control of how it lands – and the sisters let go as best they could.
But seeing a thousand people across the world dancing to moves you made up did feel pretty heart-warming,” says Alana. “I feel like we are in a super-cool exclusive club that no one wants to be in – everyone who tried to put out a record during quarantine should at least get a T-shirt.
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The band took it on themselves to launch the album with Zoom dance classes (their Instagram is choreography-heavy, with Este the long-time de facto ringleader, having instigated family dance performances since they were kids) and lessons on how to play various instrumental parts from the album. We took a flight home on March 12 and have been here since.” We played one deli in New York, then got to Washington, DC, and that was when lockdown became a reality. “We were going to do a tour right across America, only playing delis, then go to England, then Australia. “We had all these plans,” Alana chimes in. Announced before the pandemic, it was due to be released mid-April 2020. You can do everything to make the arrow go the right way but, ultimately, you don’t have control of where it goes.” Haim’s latest album, Women In Music Pt III, is a good example of this. “One of the best books I read was Zen In the Art Of Archery. “I spent lockdown reading,” says Este of the past year. It had taken a year to make, with some parts recorded up to 15 times in a variety of locations, from recording studios to bathrooms. Hailed largely as “perfect”, their debut album, Days Are Gone, entered the Billboard 200 at number six and the UK charts at number one. It’s the sound of warm LA sunshine, and sound-tracked much of the early part of the past decade. Nearly 10 years after releasing debut single Forever, the track still sounds fresh and sophisticated, with snapping drums, sweet guitar riffs and a deeply memorable melody. Este completed a five-year degree in Ethnomusicology at UCLA in only two years, and Danielle toured with Jenny Lewis and then joined The Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas on his solo tour, before all three sisters came together to write and perform their own music. But it also gave you a unity our producer Ariel is from there – when you find out someone else is from the Valley, it’s like, ‘I got you’.”Īlthough they officially became Haim full-time in 2007, the sisters had been playing together since they were tiny first as a family band doing covers, then Danielle and Este were part of a band called Valli Girls. “Growing up in the Valley, you’re kind of the butt of everyone’s joke – everyone thought you were super-uncool and had no idea what was going on. “I feel like we are Valley folklore now, rather than specific LA folklore,” continues Alana, the youngest and, at 8am, the most spirited of the three. Deep in the suburbs, a finger’s grasp away from the glitz of Hollywood, in between learning to play multiple instruments, the three sisters that make up rock band Haim spent their youth running through sprinklers and finding friends with pools to dip in. Hemmed in by mountain ranges, the San Fernando Valley is, meteorologically, the hottest part of LA.
“That’s when I decided I needed some more land between us. I moved down the street from them and they’d come over unannounced,” says Alana. “I moved out of my parents’ home when we came back from our first tour. Then, “Oh, OK – he’s actually knocking at the door now.” She glances beyond the screen before hollering across the room, “DAD, I’M DOING AN INTERVIEW,” while across LA, in their respective homes, her younger sisters, Alana and Danielle, look on bemusedly. “It’s our dad.” She picks up where she left off, explaining the power of looking your demons in the face. “Hold on, sorry,” she says, stopping mid-flow to cancel the call. Someone is trying to call Este, the eldest Haim sister, during our Zoom interview, and it’s playing havoc with the internet connection.
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