What did we tell you? We have been talking about them since April 2012, covered two of their Los Angeles performances in May and July 2012, and now the band Haim is at the top of the BBC sound of 2013 new music list!
The list features the best new musical acts for the year ahead and was determined using tips from 213 UK-based newspaper critics, magazine editors, broadcasters and bloggers,… and they are quite good at their predictions since Jessie J, Adele or Ellie Goulding were the winners of the previous years. This is an excellent thing for the Californian sisters, Este, Danielle and Alana Haim, whose musical talent earned them a comparison with Fleetwood Mac and made them open for artists such as Florence and the Machine and Mumford and Sons.
For having seen them twice, I can tell that the young girls were very convincing, played with a great enthusiasm on stage, and they sure seemed to take their songstresses’ roles with a lot of professionalism and a natural feelgood attitude.
So I can only agree with BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens or with NME magazine's new music editor Matt Wilkinson, who respectively declared:
‘Haim have an unapologetic passion for music that shines in their songs. They're brilliant musicians who have a real talent for tunes that merge their tales of growing up in the 21st Century with a classic songwriting ability.’
‘[Haim] have a knack for writing amazingly catchy singles, they're a killer live band and they talk the talk miles better than most other new bands. It's a rare and exciting combination’.
Este Haim was so pleased to hear the news:
‘It's the craziest thing to think we're on a list with so many amazing artists. This year the five bands that were in the list were all female fronted, right? We love the UK – the last time we were there, we were there for almost a month and a half. The UK is like a second home.’
Congratulations to Haim! But we already knew it, the Californian band was on my list of bands which are gonna be big next year…