Monday, December 23, 2013

BOUND: The Albums, 2013.


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10/Haim/Days Are Gone

Every artist or producer knows that a good album is more than just one good song or hit single. A good album has got to have some meat on its bones and surround itself with a slate of songs that are just as good as that hit single or even greater. Now, the greats? They don't mess around. Great albums come stacked from the top to the bottom with the hits and ear snatching melodies in succession, making the art of creation look and sound all too easy. 

Days Are Gone falls into this latter category. Days Are Gone is a crisp collection of jams that operates on a breezy landscape not too dissimilar from the So Cal streets that birthed the sisters Haim. Though only in their 20s, the sisters have already amassed years of experience creating, deconstructing, and existing within pop/pop rock's landscape. And you hear this in each of the tracks, which they also co-wrote/produced. The ladies are familiar with and knowledgeable of Fleetwood Mac, and started to come of age under Destiny's Child. They know about some Wilson Phillips harmonies and cassettes, and probably know the words to a Sheryl Crow song or two. All this before them and touched upon here. Incorporated into the sister's repertoire with ease. In succession. From track one til the end. Razor shop and focused, Days Are Gone does not mess around.
KEY TRACKS: Falling/The Wire/Honey & I
 
11/Danny Brown/Old

12/Deerhunter/Monomania

13/Foxygen/We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic








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