Final month, the sisters Haim graced the internet with a snippet of recent music—a breezy pop observe that questioned the purpose of “fucking relationships.” Now, the Los Angeles trio has launched the music in full. It’s referred to as “Relationships.” The music was produced by Rostam Batmanglij and Danielle Haim, and marks Haim’s first piece of recent music since 2023, once they contributed “Home” to Barbie the Album. “Relationships” arrives with a music video directed by Camille Summers-Valli and starring Queer actor Drew Starkey. Test it out beneath.
Since their preliminary TikTok teaser, Haim have been posting extra snippets of the music, often accompanied by the sisters dancing and lip-syncing alongside. They’ve additionally shared visible hints on the music’s theme, reminiscent of photos of bracelets which might be stamped with totally different relationship statuses: “Single,” “I’m Taken,” and “I’m ???”
In line with a press launch, “Relationships” is the primary style of a forthcoming new Haim album. Haim issued their most up-to-date studio album, Women in Music Pt. III, in 2020. The sisters adopted that report with a string of one-off singles reminiscent of “Cherry Flavored Stomach Ache” and “Lost Track.” Additionally they reduce the unique music “Feel the Thunder” for the animated movie The Croods: A New Age, and shared remixes with Toro y Moi and one Taylor Swift.
Haim have been somewhat mum about new music in recent times, save for a quick point out of it in a 2023 interview with BBC Radio 6’s Lauren Laverne. Throughout that look, the sisters performed Jai Paul’s “Jasmine” after which hinted that they had been probably working with the famously reclusive producer. “We performed Jai Paul earlier; we’d’ve been within the studio with him,” they stated. “We could or could not have been within the studio with him…. Can not verify or deny.”
Revisit the 2020 piece “RIYL: Haim’s Women in Music Pt. III.”
