Album Review: I quit by HAIM

You'll want to floor the accelerator. Then put the top down. And certainly crank the volume. Yes, HAIM's new album, I Quit, is ready-made for the open road. It's one balmy and breezy banger after the next that are by terms catchy and complex enough to not only satisfy critics, but also surely ….

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I quit codifies HAIM's freedom; after dispensing with insoluble problems, they present confluent ideas of leaving. These recurring sentiments are cohesive, if a bit laboured - healing is a somewhat staid topic in contemporary music - but I quit is at its best when it bends the road to recovery with humour and attitude. Opener Gone announces HAIM's terms of exit ('I'll fuck off whenever I please').

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This break-up album (but not as we know it) is comfortably familiar while hinting at an intriguing new direction There’s a bit of a sense of reset about I Quit, the Haim sisters’ first album in almost exactly five years. It’s the first Haim album not to be produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, Danielle Haim’s former partner, and that relationship break-up seems to have provided the fuel for most of the songs on the record. So the band’s fourth album is very definitely a break-up album, but not as we know it.

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The Rostam Batmanglij-produced album takes that messy, referential energy even further, stitching together heartbreak and internet detritus into something surprisingly cohesive -- and occasionally cathartic. In a recent interview with Spotify helmed by Kesha, Alana Haim explained that the ethos of I quit is "betting on yourself, and quitting the things that don't serve you anymore. " This sentiment -- certainly not a novel one, being at the crux of every "live your truth" Pinterest quote -- lands hardest on the punchy, George Michael-sampling opener, "Gone," where Danielle comes out swinging with a quiet ultimatum.

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It's been twelve years since the smash debut of Days Are Gone, but Alana, Daneille and Este Haim are still going strong. Over the years their music has been refined and tweaked, but what remains across their debut, Something To Tell You, and Women In Music Pt. III is their purposeful and considered instrumentation, a sound that draws on classic influences while looking ahead, and above all else, playfulness.

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In a 2025 interview with GQ, Alana Haim, the youngest member of the sister indie-rock trio Haim, addressed the tendency of critics to assign a genre to the band. “Pop isn’t a bad word,” she said, displaying ambivalence. “But rock isn’t a bad word either.” Since their 2013 debut, Days Are Gone, the sisters have flirted with both sounds.

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Following an almost five-year hiatus – or 'HAIM-atus' as their superfans branded it – everyone's favourite sisterly trio are back with their new album 'I quit', cementing their status as rockstars to be reckoned with. Leaving no room for apprehension, the record's opening track 'Gone' foregrounds the extensive blend of genres and decades which are sonically internalised amongst the fifteen-track album. Opening with Americana style acoustic guitar, the spotlight is solely focused on the sister's shared vocals, led by Danielle.

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The fourth studio album by the acclaimed HAIM sisters could just as easily be called 'fuck it'. Launched with a fittingly low-fi yet perfectly dramatic music video listing all the things being tossed aside (everything from overthinking to dick) this amped-up self-defiance has spawned what the trio have labelled "the sound they have always wanted to make", a middle finger to pretty much everything. The concept is simple; quitting makes space for the new.

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Kudos to Haim, first of all, for the best album title of the year. Breakup albums are so common that it's surprising no one previously had the temerity and/or genius to name such a record "I Quit." If that bluntness sound a little prosaic at first, there's a curt poetry to it that comes into focus listening through 15 tracks that consist almost entirely of sisters Danielle, Alana and Este Haim handing in their respective resignations to long- or short-term partners, effectively immediately. Who will be cleaning out whose desk may be in question ("You packed my shit / But it's nothing I needed," Danielle informs her ex in the opening cut, "Gone").

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"Can I have your attention, please?" goes the opening line of "Gone," the first track on HAIM's fourth studio album, I Quit. It feels like a statement of intent, as the album see Danielle, Alana, and Este Haim leaning into their pop tendencies on their most radio-friendly album to date. Lead single "Relationships," for one, comes armed with a breezy, instantly memorable pop hook and Instagram-ready refrain: "When an innocent mistake/Turns into 17 days/Fucking relationships." Elsewhere, "All Over Me" alternately takes its cues from country-pop, which is currently seeing a resurgence, and Midnights-era Taylor Swift.

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