is warm-hearted and wistful, albeit with an undercurrent of violence that threatens to explode like an overloaded circuit. The 1973 oil crisis, the Nixon administration, heavy doses of sexism, racism and homophobia, all forecast the unvarnished adult world its two young leads are hurtling towards. “I think it’s weird that I hang out with Gary and his 15-year-old friends all the time,” Alana says at one point, pulling on a joint.
It was a shared love for their sunshine-and-strip-mall home turf that brought Anderson and Haim together in the first place. HAIM have channelled its particular atmosphere in their music and when Anderson heard them, something clicked: “A friend who gave me my first job singing jingles for a company when I was 16, called us and said, PTA wants you guys to email him,” says Haim.
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