Something to Tell You

Something to Tell You is the second studio album by American pop rock band Haim. It was released on July 7, 2017, by Columbia Records.[3][4] The album's lead single, "Want You Back", was released on May 3, 2017, followed by the release of the promotional single "Right Now".[5] On May 10, the album cover was revealed, along with the preorder announcement.[6] "Little of Your Love" was then announced as the second single on June 18, 2017, via Twitter. "Nothing's Wrong" was released as the third single on August 21, 2017.[7]

Something to Tell You
Studio album by Haim
Released	July 7, 2017
Studio	Valentine Recording Studios, Valley Village, Los Angeles, California Ariel Rechtshaid's studio, Burbank, California
Genre	Pop rock[1]
Length	42:38
Label	Columbia
Producer	Haim (exec.) Ariel Rechtshaid BloodPop Rostam Batmanglij George Lewis Jr.[2]
Haim chronology
Days Are Gone (2013) Something to Tell You (2017) Women in Music Pt. III (2020)
Alternative cover
Urban Outfitters exclusive vinyl cover
Singles from Something to Tell You
"Want You Back" Released: May 3, 2017 "Little of Your Love" Released: June 18, 2017 "Nothing's Wrong" Released: August 21, 2017

Background and recording

Haim toured for two years to support their previous release, Days Are Gone, the three sisters' 2013 debut album that was met with a great deal of critical and commercial success. With the conclusion of their tour came the beginning of the process of crafting Something to Tell You: "All we knew for two years was wake up, soundcheck, play the show, go to sleep and fit in a slice of pizza at some point. We needed to turn our brains from touring brains back to writing brains. When we came home, we literally got off the bus, took a nap and went right into the studio."[8] The initial sessions for the album were unfruitful; the band questioned the quality of the songs, wondering if they were on par with the debut album. However, a breakthrough came after the producers of the 2015 Judd Apatow-directed romantic comedy Trainwreck asked the band to write a song for the film's soundtrack. "Little of Your Love", the album's second single, was produced in under a week at the film producers' request, and although it was ultimately not selected for the soundtrack, completing the song gave the band the confidence they needed to write new material for the album.[8]

In the following years, the band developed the album, taking breaks and continuing to perform at various shows and festivals, much of which would further inspire the album. The band switched between Valentine Studios, an infrequently used 1970's production facility in Valley Village (a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California), and producer Ariel Rechtshaid's home studio.[8]

Promotion

"Want You Back" was released as the album's first single on May 3, 2017, and was followed a week later by the promotional single, "Right Now". On May 13, the band performed "Want You Back" along with "Little of Your Love" on Saturday Night Live.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson filmed a documentary about the making of the album. Titled Valentine, the film was first screened in July 2017, before being officially uploaded to the internet that September.[9] Anderson would go on to direct music videos for three of the album's tracks "Right Now", "Little of Your Love", and a live version of "Night So Long".[10] Anderson became interested in the group after learning that the sisters were the daughters of one of his former art teachers.[9]

They made their first UK appearance at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend on May 27, performing "Want You Back" and "Right Now" as part of their set.[11]

The trio also embarked on their second headlining tour, the Sister Sister Sister Tour which begun on April 3, 2018.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	69/100[12]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[13]
Clash	7/10[14]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[15]
The Independent	[16]
Mojo	[17]
NME	[18]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[1]
Rolling Stone	[19]
Slant Magazine	[20]
Uncut	[21]

Something to Tell You has received a generally positive reception from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 69 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable" reception.[12]

Writing for Pitchfork, Jenn Pelly said, "No other rock band in popular music (an anomalous statement already) has mixed styles so seamlessly—rattling and gliding from one hook to another...Haim's latticed arrangements and heavily percussive melodies make their music fly."[1] Pelly as well as several other reviewers stressed the influence of Stevie Nicks and other 1970s and '80s rock; in the Los Angeles Times, Mikael Wood said the album "makes you believe that rock might have a future," bearing "the polished sound of vintage Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles, and here the sisters continue to rely on guitars and the like at a moment when many of their peers have little use for them."[22] In Rolling Stone, Jon Dolan said, "You can hear the studied sense of craft all over Something to Tell You...These songs don't always explode with the sunny ebullience of the first LP, but the melodies, beats and ideas are layered and piled high."[19] In The Guardian, Kitty Empire writes, "Haim really know what they are doing. There are digressions to kill for here, what you might once have called middle eights, indefatigable melodies, and weird little noises – a horse neigh and a seagull coda on Want You Back, a fax machine on Found It in Silence, the gasping on Nothing's Wrong – to keep you clamping your headphones to your ears in delight."[23]

Commercial performance

Something to Tell You debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 with 32,000 album-equivalent units, of which 26,000 were pure album sales.[24] It also debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, selling 18,319 copies in its first week.[25]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Want You Back"	Alana Haim Danielle Haim Este Haim Ariel Rechtshaid	Rechtshaid BloodPop^[a]	3:52
2.	"Nothing's Wrong"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid	Rechtshaid	3:09
3.	"Little of Your Love"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid	Rechtshaid Rostam Batmanglij^[a]	3:33
4.	"Ready for You"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid George Lewis Jr.	Rechtshaid Twin Shadow	3:45
5.	"Something to Tell You"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid	Rechtshaid	4:13
6.	"You Never Knew"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid Dev Hynes	Rechtshaid	4:29
7.	"Kept Me Crying"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid Batmanglij	Rechtshaid Batmanglij	3:55
8.	"Found It in Silence"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid	Rechtshaid Batmanglij^[a]	4:23
9.	"Walking Away"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Batmanglij	Batmanglij	3:56
10.	"Right Now"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid	Rechtshaid	4:15
11.	"Night So Long"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Rechtshaid	Rechtshaid	3:04
Total length:				42:34

LP and Japan bonus track[26]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
12.	"Water's Running Dry"	A. Haim D. Haim E. Haim Batmanglij	Batmanglij	3:45

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies an additional producer

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic and album’s liner notes.[2][27]

Haim Alana Haim – vocals (tracks 1-9, 12), guitar (2, 3, 5-7, 10), percussion (2-5), keyboards (8) Danielle Haim – vocals (all tracks), guitar (1-8, 11), drums (1-8, 10, 12), percussion (2, 4-6, 8), Hi-hat (9), synthesizer (10), glass bottle (9) Este Haim – vocals (tracks 1-10, 12), bass guitar (1-3, 5-10, 12), percussion (4) Musicians Rostam Batmanglij – acoustic guitar (tracks 8, 12), drum programming (7), electric guitar (12), harmonizer (7), Moog Bass (12), piano (7), rhythm guitar (7), synthesizer (7, 8, 12) Matt Bauder – saxophone (track 3) Andrew Bulbrook - violin (track 12) Lenny Castro – congas (track 5) Devonté Hynes – DX7 electric piano (track 6) Jim-E Stack – keyboards (track 1) Tommy King – bass synth (tracks 4, 5), CP70 (5), organ (7, 8, 10), piano (2, 3), synthesizer (2, 5, 11) Greg Leisz – guitar (tracks 1, 3), pedal steel guitar (10), slide guitar (12) George Lewis Jr. – guitar (track 4) Roger Manning – synthesizer (track 3) Serena McKinney – violin (track 8) David Moyer – saxophone (track 3) Nico Muhly – prepared piano and strings (track 10) Mike Olsen – cello (track 8) Owen Pallett – viola (track 8) Ariel Rechtshaid – acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 4, 6), background vocals (8), celeste (11), guitar (5), keyboards (1), marimba (11), organ (3, 7), percussion (3, 5, 6, 8, 10), piano (10), rhythm guitar (7), synthesizer (2, 4-8, 10, 11), vocoder (6) Buddy Ross – dulcimer (track 2), Fender Rhodes (2, 6), keyboards (1), percussion (5), synthesizer (2, 6, 10) Gus Seyffert – percussion (track 2) Ruud Wiener - Simmons Silicon Mallet (track 6)

Technical personnel Chris Allgood – assistant mastering engineer Rostam Batmanglij – additional production (tracks 3, 8), engineer (7, 9, 12), producer (7, 9, 12), string arrangements (12) BloodPop – additional production (track 1) Martin Cooke – assistant engineer (tracks 1-6, 8, 10, 11) Rich Costey – mixing (tracks 1-6, 8, 10, 11) Laura Coulson – photography John DeBold – engineer (tracks 1-6, 8, 10, 11) Scott Desmarais – assistant mixing engineer (track 9) Robin Florent – assistant mixing engineer (track 9) Nicolas Fournier – assistant engineer (tracks 1-6, 8, 10, 11) Dave Fridmann – mixing (track 7) Chris Galland – mixing engineer (track 9) Michael Harris – engineer (tracks 1, 3, 7, 12) Chris Kasych – engineer (tracks 1-6, 8, 10, 11) Emily Lazar – mastering George Lewis Jr. – producer (track 4) Ted Lovett – creative director Manny Marroquin – mixing (track 9) Serena McKinney – string arrangements (track 8) Rob Orton - mixing (track 12) Ariel Rechtshaid – drum programming (track 7), engineer (1-8, 10, 11), producer (1-8, 10, 11), programming (1-6, 8), string arrangements (8) Nick Rowe – engineer (tracks 1-9, 11, 12) David Schiffman – engineer (tracks 1-7, 10, 12) Gus Seyffert – engineer (tracks 2, 3)

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2017) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[28] 4 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[29] 56 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[30] 17 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[31] 122 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[32] 11 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[33] 46 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[34] 44 Greek Albums (IFPI)[35] 61 Irish Albums (IRMA)[36] 4 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[37] 11 Scottish Albums (OCC)[38] 2 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[39] 37 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[40] 41 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[41] 26 UK Albums (OCC)[42] 2 US Billboard 200[43] 7 US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[44] 2 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[45] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2017) Position US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[46] 96

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[47]	Silver	60,000
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history

List of regions, release dates, formats, label and references

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label	Ref.
Various	July 7, 2017	CD LP digital download music streaming	Columbia Records	[48]

References

1. Pelly, Jenn (July 7, 2017). "Haim: Something to Tell You Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
2. "Something to Tell You - HAIM - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
3. Leight, Elias (April 27, 2017). "Haim Preview New LP 'Something to Tell You' With 'Right Now' Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
4. Trendell, Andrew (April 27, 2017). "Haim unveil new song & video 'Right Now', and announce new album 'Something To Tell You'". NME. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
5. "Want You Back – Single by HAIM on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
6. "HAIM on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
7. "Future Releases on Triple A (AAA) Radio Stations, Independent Artist Song Releases | ..." All Access. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
8. Weiner, Jonah (May 3, 2017). "Sister Act 2: How Haim Found Their Way Back With 'Something to Tell You'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
9. Kreps, Daniel. "Watch Haim's Paul Thomas Anderson-Directed Short Film, 'Valentine'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
10. Sharf, Zack. "Paul Thomas Anderson Won't Stop Directing Intimate HAIM Music Videos — Watch 'Night So Long (Live at the Greek)'". Indiewire. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
11. "HAIM: Saturday 27 May Where It Begins". BBC Music. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
12. "Reviews and Tracks for Something to Tell You by HAIM". Metacritic. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
13. Phares, Heather (July 7, 2017). "Something To Tell You - HAIM | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
14. Musker, James (July 6, 2017). "Haim - Something To Tell You". Clash. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
15. Bernstein, Jonathan (July 5, 2017). "HAIM's new album is the impeccable American pop you've been craving". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
16. Gill, Andy (July 5, 2017). "Albums reviews: Haim – Something To Tell You, Calvin Harris – Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, Offa Rex – The Queen Of Hearts". The Independent. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
17. "Review: Something to Tell You by HAIM". Mojo. London: 88. August 2017.
18. Milton, Jamie (July 7, 2017). "Haim – 'Something to Tell You' Review". NME. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
19. Dolan, Jon (June 29, 2017). "Review: Haim Deepen Ties to Soul Music and Eighties Soft-Rock on Long-Awaited Second LP". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
20. Goller, Josh (July 10, 2017). "HAIM: Something to Tell You - Album Review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
21. "Review: Something to Tell You by HAIM". Uncut. London: 30. August 2017.
22. Wood, Mikael (July 5, 2017). "New album from L.A. breakout stars Haim makes you believe rock might have a future". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
23. Empire, Kitty (July 9, 2017). "Haim: Something to Tell You review – once more with feeling". Retrieved July 16, 2017. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
24. Caulfield, Keith (July 16, 2017). "21 Savage & Haim Debut in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart". Billboard. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
25. Jones, Alan (July 14, 2017). "Official Charts Analysis: Ed Sheeran remains at No.1 and now has more weeks at the top than his previous albums". Music Week. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
26. "CDJapan: Something To Tell You [Japan Bonus Track] CD". CDJapan.
27. Something to Tell You (booklet). Columbia. 2017.
28. "Australiancharts.com – Haim – Something to Tell You". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
29. "Austriancharts.at – Haim – Something to Tell You" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
30. "Ultratop.be – Haim – Something to Tell You" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
31. "Ultratop.be – Haim – Something to Tell You" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
32. "Haim Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
33. "Dutchcharts.nl – Haim – Something to Tell You" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
34. "Offiziellecharts.de – Haim – Something to Tell You" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
35. "Official IFPI Charts – Top-75 Albums Sales Chart (Week: 28/2017)". IFPI Greece. Archived from the original on July 25, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
36. "Irish-charts.com – Discography Haim". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
37. "Charts.nz – Haim – Something to Tell You". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
38. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
39. "Spanishcharts.com – Haim – Something to Tell You". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
40. "Swedishcharts.com – Haim – Something to Tell You". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
41. "Swisscharts.com – Haim – Something to Tell You". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
42. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
43. "Haim Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
44. "Haim Chart History (Top Alternative Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
45. "Haim Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
46. "Top Rock Albums – Year-End 2017". Billboard. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
47. "British album certifications – Haim – Something To Tell You". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 11, 2018. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Something To Tell You in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
48. "HAIM: Something to Tell You (Album)". ASIN B00ECL7ZJ2. Retrieved June 30, 2017.