For those who are satisfied to simply evaluate on this fact, here is an including-but-not-limited-to list of Days Are Gone's musical touchstones: The Go-Gos, Heart, Prince's pop eclecticism and multi-instrumentality, Sade, The Black Keys, Christine McVie-fronted Fleetwood Mac, Shania Twain ("Man I Feel Like a Woman"), Rod Stewart ("The Motown Song"), mid-era solo Paul Simon, Destiny's Child, and the atmospheric drama of Canadian indie rock.
Haim certainly touches on a number of artists of yore, some obvious and some rather surprising. SO, let's get something else out of the way - they are KINDA right. In fact, one could argue the persistent comparisonism (new word!) levied at Days Are Gone is KINDA sexist - yeah, it's reminiscint of a variety female pop/rock artists because the band consists of three chicks, we get it. The popular notions are that Days Are Gone is a Fleetwood Mac body double or that it exclusively panders to Cyndi Lauper-variety '80s music aficianados.
I only raise this point because Haim's debut Days Are Gone has often been unfairly dogged by this very tactic, even in its positive reviews. Furthermore, it serves only to propagate the notion that a music critic nowadays is merely a buyer's reference guide - "BUY THIS IF YOU LIKE !" WHEW! //end rant. This lazy criticism primarily conveys itself as the offender vomiting their "music knowledge" all over the page. Simply "reviewing" an album by pigeonholing it to another artist or another album is bullshit. Let's get something out of the way up front. Review Summary: The only problem with Haim right now is nothing to do with right now – when you’ve attained the perfection of Days Are Gone right off the bat, where DO you go next? Hey, don’t worry about tomorrow when you can listen to Days Are Gone today…
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