Days Are Gone

With striking breeziness, <i>Days Are Gone</i> delivers on the high expectations raised by the trio’s early EPs. “The Wire” is so immediately likable that it would throw the rest of an album by a lesser act off balance. However, the sisters follow it up with a run of equally slick and indelible pop songs—If I Could Change Your Mind,” “Honey & I,” “Don’t Save Me”. While much here sparkles with the gloss, hooks and playfulness of ’80s pop and rock, the spartan, percussive modern R&B of “My Song 5” reveals Haim as a band with the skill and confidence to keep pushing their sound in intriguing new directions.