Triple Threat

With a sound, style and sass that borrow in equal measure from the old and new, HAIM are back on rotation with a new album, four years in the making. The trio talks roots, fashion and the future with ANNA LAVDARAS.

- Anna Lavdaras

After a four-year hiatus, the trio of multitalented sisters collectively known as Haim is garnering fresh attention with a new set of stories to tell. Their second album (released in July) is aptly called Something to Tell You, and it has plenty of that same contagious punch we originally fell in love with back in 2013 — perhaps with a little more polish this time around. While the tracks repeat in the mind like pop chart-toppers (the girls credit Britney and Destiny’s Child as influences), Haim’s process and delivery gives them a longevity most other artists aren’t afforded by the fickle music industry. Hence their taking four years to release a follow-up to their hugely successful debut, Days Are Gone. This new album only cements their status as one of the most talented all-girl groups in the business.

Sisters Este, Danielle and Alana grew up in the heart of the celebrity-worshipping heartland, just outside LA in The Valley, amid a youth culture that inspired Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. But unlike their millennial contemporaries hunting fame for fame’s sake, they were forcibly recruited by their music-loving parents into a family covers band that played charity events. “Right around the time we started Rockinhaim, Este was reaching into angsty teen territory, like, ‘I’m not going to hang out with my parents,’”