Women in Music, Pt. III cover

Women in Music, Pt. III

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The Haim sisters might very well be responsible for why the clarion call of soft rock will, and should, never go silent. Their third album — featuring bouncy, joyfully tactile production by former Vampire Weekender Rostam Batmanglij, stirs around its Doobies and Carpenters until we’re left with a stew of old and new, where the past is treated reverently but never cheaply. A rootsy cry for relationship equity (“The Steps”), a skittering electro-bummer ode to numb weekends (“I Know Alone”), and enough honking saxes and hand claps to deliver a ridiculously solid crowdpleaser with a necessary mean streak.

Amelia Riggs

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