Consumer Guide Album

Haim: I Quit [Columbia, 2025]
On the most songful of an album catalogue that's never lacked melody, the three L.A. sisters savor sex even more than they do tune while wishing that guys—with special emphasis on the sexy ones—were more patient, more reliable, just better. True enough, "I'm getting you hard/In the back of the car/But baby you know that I'll still be leaving tomorrow." But then again, "Something about it made you seem like/You could fill the seat next to me without complications." By a large margin I find them not just catchy but theoretically attractive enough to truly hope so even if it means not taking the album title literally. A