Album Review: Haim - Something To Tell You

The Haim sisters - Este, Danielle and Alana - are back with Something To Tell You, their second album that's every bit worth the four year wait.

The Los Angeles trio have enhanced their driving, percussive, rhythmic music with a maturity and confidence whilst retaining all that made their debut Days Are Gone so successful - the brilliant melodies, production (they've stuck with producer Ariel Rechtshaid) and songwriting - not to mention the insane talent of all three multi-instrumentalists.

Their music has an ability to transport its listener to a different time, certain electronic sounds or processing are the only thing to signify the songs aren't straight out of the '70s or '80s. The Fleetwood Mac influence is even more evident this time around with the significance of drums and percussion, Este's melodic bass lines, the vocal harmonies and retro synth/keys (Nothing's Wrong, You Never Knew).

The group demonstrate a greater range - slow burner Kept Me Crying has a lo-fi sound and a heavily distorted guitar solo, Found It In Silence is uplifting with a four to the floor kick and the processed beat fills that characterise much of Haim's music whilst slow, emotive album closer Night So Long shows a different side of the band all together.

Something To Tell You is proof that good things take time, though hopefully it's not another four years before we get another instalment of Haim.