Haim’s latest album, I Quit, didn’t make as much cultural noise as its near-perfect pandemic-era predecessor, Women in Music Pt. III (2020), when it was released in June. But you wouldn’t know, decibelly speaking, at Seattle’s sprawling, sardine-packed WAMU Theater last night, where the three-member sister act played a mostly new-song-focused set with the sort of effortlessly fun, with-friends-in-the-living-room spirit that’s been an expected part of its live performances since its breakthrough 2013 debut, Days Are Gone.

“The thing I love about Seattle,” youngest sister Alana Haim told the crowd early on in the show, “is you go f—g crazy.” For the band’s first headlining concert in the city since 2022 (the band supported their friend Taylor Swift here in 2023 during her Eras tour), the audience emitted the good vibes of a long-awaited, blessedly dysfunction-free family reunion. Lyrics were worshipfully sung back; a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses was passed forward to Alana as a prop to accompany her love-happy solo song off I Quit, the swaying “Spinning,” and a young fan saw eldest member Este game to sign a poster just before she confessed to needing a bathroom break. (Alana and middle sister-slash-main frontwoman Danielle breezily passed the time by asking the LED sign board that’s been the primary visual marker of the I Quit era questions as if it was a Magic 8 Ball, wondering — only to get inevitable, and humorously pithy, affirmatives — whether they’d have a drunken night out during their day off in the city, for example.)

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