Southern California’s favorite genre-defending sister trio does not play Coy with its new era. After the sharp momentum of “relationships”, Haim has lost its latest single, “Everybody tries to figure me out”, and it is less of a relaxed edition, more of a statement: the band leans in the noise, both sonically and metaphorically.
Released on April 4, the track opens with a muscular impulse – the type that suggests that something bigger is coming – before being released into a dense wound guitar line that has a growing feeling of worry. This is not your windy, sunlit pop-rock Haim. It is the type of introspective, late-night-drive song that draws its weight slowly and consciously. “Everyone is trying to find out” sounds like it has been dropping in the background for several years waiting for the right time to be said high.
The lyrics hit a nerve. It is the sound of someone who is exhausted from the over-analysis, from being both mythologized and misunderstood-a self-conscious nod to the band’s public image and speculation that traces their every move. The tension is not high, but it is pointed. And Haim does not solve it with a sugar -containing choir or a glittering bridge. They let it be delayed.
This drop follows the early success of “relationships”, their streaming-strong comeback single that has already become their biggest launch yet, clocked over 7 million global currents during their first week and marks their highest British diagrampost since 2017 “Want You Back.” Critics have rushed in with praise and called “relationships” both elegant and emotionally developed – and now, with “Everyone is trying to figure me out”, the band seems to build against something deeper than just a blank return.
There is no official album message yet, but with two new songs-were and one reveals another emotional register-Haim clearly sets the scene for a fourth record that can be their most personal, or perhaps most self-conscious, so far. As if other clues were needed for the upcoming album to lean to “Single Girl Summer” and Labor of Love Lost, the caption is above the video below: “This is your sign to leave him.”
The trio is also ready for a round festival stop, including New Orleans Jazz Fest later this month and Primavera Sound in both Barcelona and Portugal in June. If these tracks are a preview of what is coming, Haim may only get into their most sonically mature – and publicly incredible – era.
Press Play on “Everybody tries to figure me out” and hear Haim dig deeper into the discomfort of being dissected.
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