is like touring Compton with Kendrick Lamar , or New Jersey with Bruce Springsteen . Danielle, Este and Alana Haim are the musicians from “the Valley”, and its yellow-hued streets have been the backdrop of their work for their whole career. (“They’re the San Fernando Valley’s house band,” says the director Paul Thomas Anderson , one of their closest collaborators and a fellow Valley native.) So, they’re kinda big dogs around here. Case in point: mooching around a vintage store that Este used to work at called Wasteland, they run into someone they know. “I’m seeing a bunch of stuff online,” their friend says, referring to the barrage of new-album promo flowing out of their social feeds lately, “and I’m like… the girls are back!”

In the Valley with Haim , you’re only ever a brisk

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