III-step.
Saxophone stalking the Hollywood streets of Los Angeles to 'Punch, Drunk Love' director Paul Thomas Anderson's classic music video like moviemaking. Ever since they became your 'Summer Girl' all those seasons ago last year in the constant state of Cali. The sunset life of the 'WIMP3' new Haim record, 'Woman In Music Pt. III' has seemed like a California classic in the eagerly awaited, most anticipated album of 2020 making for you Mama's and Papa's like the sixties. And now like something straight out of Woodstock for the Compton crowd, we're all taking our shirts off and walking beside and not behind the best band in the world right now (yeah I said it. Sorry to my personal favourite Jezabels. Still can't wait for Hayley Mary to come back after her smashing solo E.P. this Jan). Right in the first quarter like LeBron or Kawhi that saw Best Coast return like 'Always Tomorrow' with a Hotel California like stay. A calendar after Brookyn baby Lana Del Rey made this state a permanent retreat, all the way to her sound like 'Norman F###### Rockwell' in the Maggie Rogers and King Princess throne future that is female right now.
Now if you thought 'Summer' was your girl like Joseph Gordon-Levitt over 500 days, the sisters of Alana, Danielle and my dream girl (I'm just saying...sorry) Este have given you three more big records that deserved to be songs for the moment off what's already an amazing album, even if it doesn't even come out 'till April. From changing room, change clothes switching your coffee shop uniform to a black dress, sunglasses, pink phone dial and stretcher plank dive. To walking through a car wash to restore your Saturday night sins to Sunday morning confessions. 'Now I'm In It' took us further inside that above that angst ridden anthem for the next generation icons of indie pop. But after getting our attention the 'Want You Back' family (no not the Jackson 5) gave us another classic video on these L.A. streets with P.T.A. like a rock Goddess P.S.A. As they stole our heart with 'Hallelujah' (no not that one) and its smoke and mirrors haunting and hallmark, theatrical trickery video that saw the amazing Alana take centre stage spotlight as she paid testifying tribute to her dearly departed best friend. And now of that wasn't everything, these guitar heroes are back for one more single and video release before the album from the group that really will be 'The Steps' that will take us there like the Hollywood Hills.
Lights, camera, action. Like the previous envelope pushing three classics, 'Steps' has that angst knack of sounding signature, albeit also sounding like nothing this band of sisters has done before...I guess that's just there trademark, one-of-a-kind style. And far from a stereotypical break-up song in an industry and town that wants to put individuals in the same box they try to tick, this is more than smeared lipstick like blood and cropped locks bob, starring at the mirrors reflection wishing it would tell you something. Although these Paul Thomas clips are making for a classic collaboration and what could be one theatre neon ready visual album straight out of Hollywood's La La Land for the indie act. As Anderson knows how to bring that star is born, fourth wall look out of Dani California. There's classic guitar riffs like 'Summer's' sax breaks, hallmark Haim sounds like 'Hallelujah' and a Danielle drum solo as iconic as her being at the car wash. Showing more vulnerability of emotion, letting rip as she engines the skins. What more could I want from a group that Stan's K-Pop 7 BTS and 'Like A Version' performs indie covers of Shania Twain that do impress me much? What more could you from the San Fernando three as California as purple and gold, grains of blonde on boardwalks, or that bear? And with lyrics like, "every time I think that I've been takin' the steps/you end up mad at me for makin' a mess", there's the hook for the catchy chorus for your next anthem. You'll have these steps on repeat all the way 'till they make fools out of every other album this April. On the Spring cusp of becoming your Summer girl again. Punch drunk and oh so in love. Hallelujah for Haim. We're all the way in for these women in music. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
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