All Fans is Welcome to Join as the Additional Haim Sisters Bandmate.
"Any idea when you're interviewing the band?" a text arrives. "My request was to ask if I can be their extra sister."
There's just a single issue: I also wants to be Haim's newest recruit. Furthermore, we are in plentiful company. Multiple celebrated supporters have also petitioned for the position.
One thing is obvious a special quality is happening. Sisters Este, Danielle and Alana started their career performing shows at neighborhood delis with their family. Today, they are multi-time Grammy contenders.
Like all the best bands, they're a tight-knit trio. Their visuals repeatedly show them marching in harmony down the roads of Los Angeles. During performances, they perform with such pure happiness you inevitably think, "I want to be involved in that, too."
"The amount of times on tour that young girls told us and said, 'After your show, I picked up a bass'," says Alana, the most junior of the sisters. "That's the ultimate compliment. That's an award in itself. We have succeeded if we can inspire young girls to start a band."
"Therefore anyone are welcome to be the honorary part of the family."
Grammy Recognition
The band are connecting from a break, where they're taking a pause after an major tour in promoting their fourth album, I Quit.
They're presently celebrating the news it's been in the running for a top rock honor at the Grammy Awards – with Haim the very first all-woman band ever in contention for the prize.
"I watch the announcements every year, so it sort of feels like The Truman Show when your name is announced," says Alana. "I had to call my sisters to say, 'Am I hearing this correctly or am I hallucinating'?"
The weight of the honor is deeply felt by the trio.
"We really set out to make a rock record this time, so it's a major milestone," says Alana. "Yet we're just appreciative for the women that paved the way."
Emotional Upheaval and Candor
The album emerged from a phase of emotional upheaval. All three sisters ended up single, and the music explores that odd transitional period where you're relieved to be free, but not yet ready to let go.
The words detail endings and farewells. The sisters want love, but not the specific love they've got. You can hear them figuring out in real life who they are becoming.
"I adore description, yes," responds Danielle. "I Quit is like a mantra. You have to consciously practice ignoring the criticism and saying, 'It doesn't matter to me what people think'."
Refinement of Sound
That newfound resilience demanded a different sonic direction – more raw and direct than anything the band had done before.
For Danielle, who helped produce the album, that began with the percussion.
"Drums are such a detailed thing, and I am so passionate about it," she says.
"'Journey of the drum sound' will be the subject of our book," laughs Alana. "I've said it, our albums cannot begin until we find the perfect drum sound."
Stories and Collective Laughter
The trio's candor fueled the album's rollout, where the sisters disclosed some of their romantic tales.
Someone ended things with Este over a medical concern. Alana told a story of flying to spend New Year's Eve with someone, only to receive a casual gesture at midnight.
"When you're going through these setbacks, you just feel like there's no light," says Alana. "Thus to be able to find humor in those stories and have them tell you more outrageous stories, it's incredible."
A Secure Legacy
One can easily sense a evolution in the band. Now, Haim are more confident of their position in the music world.
They're major draws, with chart-topping albums and an international following.
But the sister act will forever be their top focus.
"We have been playing music since I was four," shares Alana. "It feels as if nothing else that we were supposed to do. And I'm really thankful we've made it and we're still making music."
