What’s that sound? Is it the primary music of the summer season? Is it “Relationships,” the featherweight, angst-filled new Haim monitor a few tortured silence in a long-term romance? Is it each, or it could possibly be, perhaps, if we simply—no, wait, don’t reply that. Produced by Danielle Haim and Rostam, with single cowl artwork impressed (with believable deniability) by Nicole Kidman’s (plausibly denied) divorce paparazzi shot, the not-at-all-deep “Relationships” nonetheless someway manages to encapsulate the issue with fashionable relationships: We don’t know learn how to discuss them at all. A head-clearing drum intro leaves our narrator alone along with her ideas, questioning whether or not all this heartache is one thing we must always’ve outgrown (“Is it simply the shit our dad and mom did?”), or if we’re nonetheless too younger to grasp (“Perhaps that’s simply the way it goes/Once you’re not totally grown”), whether or not nice loves “find yourself all the identical” or if she’d “do all of it it once more” (properly, sure). The summery minimal funk continues apace, the logic circling like a music on repeat, the decision by no means fairly satisfying. “Relationships” is cagey like that—like you could possibly ship it to your crush and so they couldn’t start to know what you actually meant.
