Originally, the group had hoped to release the album this past fall, but they’re now looking at a summer release. “We write everything, we play everything, and we help produce everything,” Danielle says. “These things take time, and we refuse to put out anything we’re not 100 percent in love with.” But the band is eager to share the music as soon as possible—they already road-tested two new songs, the hooky call-and-response tune “Nothing’s Wrong” and the twinkling “Little of Your Love,” at festival dates this summer. “To get to Days Are Gone, it took us seven years,” Alana says. “We’re super excited for the next chapter, to just tour our hearts out and really hit the ground running in 2017.” Adds Este: “You don’t even know what’s coming for you. I’m warning you. You. Don’t. Even. Know.”
The studio work for the so-far-untitled new album features just two outside collaborators: in-demand alt-pop-leaning producer Ariel Rechtshaid and former Vampire Weekend member (and accomplished producer in his own right) Rostam Batmanglij. The Haim sisters are co-producing the album, as they did alongside Rechtshaid and others on 2013’s Days Are Gone.