The three sisters — Este, 32, Danielle, 29, and Alana, 26 — have reached super-stardom in recent years. But before these Jewish sisters were in a famous band… they were just normal Jewish kids from Los Angeles.
Their parents, Donna and Moti, never pushed their daughters into entertainment. Mordechai, known as Moti, was born in Israel and he was a professional soccer player. As this Fader profile points out :. The sisters clearly admire their father, Moti, and often break into impressions of his bad advice and vanity. I paint. Donna, their mom, grew up in Philadelphia. She won a singing contest on T he Gong Show in the s. Danielle chose not to have a celebration.
The HAIM project has always been in part a mood and a magnetic aesthetic, captured in their trademark walk—a row of sisters in high-waisted jeans, clomping down the sunbaked streets of Los Angeles, inseparable and in sync. They had lifetime memberships to a club that no one else could join, but we could pay a cover charge to hear the music. Much of the record was written in a cramped, windowless studio in Burbank in early It was an ad-hoc form of group therapy: Alana was working through unprocessed grief for her best friend, Sammi Kane Kraft, who died in a car accident in ; Este, who has Type 1 diabetes, was exhausted after months of touring; and Danielle was dealing with depression.
Perhaps vulnerability was what was missing from HAIM before; they had nailed goofiness and buoyancy, but the songs could feel almost too shiny and squeaky, like fresh car wax.
The resulting record is coherent and yet pleasantly disjointed; there is no one genre on it, no dominant tone. It sounds like a band purposefully trying to wriggle free of what came before. HAIM makes dozens of cheeky musical references on the album, and the cumulative effect of these footnotes is to prove that they can play whatever they want. Share on whatsapp. By Unpacked Staff. A lot of people mispronounce their name.
The name is HAIM. Get it right. The best people in life are free. Este, 31, is considered the comedian of the family, but she takes her diabetes very seriously. Share on email.
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