Kevin Bronson on March 3rd, 2020

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Ever since they were girls, the Haim sisters have been “women in music.” Preternaturally gifted players, they got their start playing classic rock covers with mom and dad, eventually finding their own songwriting voice in the Fleetwood Mac-meets-’90s-R&B groove of their albums “Days Are Gone” (2013) and “Something to Tell You” (2017).

So it’s an inside joke that their new album is “Women In Music Pt. III,” and maybe a sad one at that, since it’s 2020 and people often still talk/write about females who play instruments with veiled amazement. Says Danielle Haim, “The name came to me in a dream and I woke up laughing so I told my sisters.” Kid sister Alana adds, “I liked it because we are literally women in music and we always get written about that way, so it seemed cool to make it our own and control the narrative. It made me think about some of our experiences more.” Big sister Este chimes in: “I just thought it was funny, plus the initials are WIMP3. Wimp is a hilarious word.”

The album, made with two of Haim’s longtime collaborators, Grammy-winning producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Adele, Blood Orange, Carly Rae Jepsen) and Rostam Batmanglij (Charli XCX, Solange, Frank Ocean), and produced by Danielle Haim, is out April 24. It will include the three singles the trio released in 2019 — “Summer Girl,” “Now I’m In It” and “Hallelujah.”

Speaking of longtime collaborators, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson returns to co-direct with Danielle the video for the new single “The Steps,” which swings the trio’s sound back in a guitar-centric, roots-rock direction. That’s kinda where Haim started back in these early days, only now everything is bolder and sharper. It’s probably not as country-fied as three sisters from the Valley can get, but it’s a refreshing twist.

||| Watch: The video for “The Steps”

||| Previously: “Summer Girl,” “Want You Back”