The Hives - The Black And White Album reviews
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 As the cheeky title hints, the Swedish quintet are sticking to their sartorial code. Yet sonically they've tweaked their punk-pop vibe, even employing the hip-hop-flavored Pharrell Williams for one cut. Happily, that gambit — the danceable ''T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.'' — pays off. For devotees of neo-Nuggets psychedelia, meanwhile, the stomp remains the same on the snap-happy ''You Dress Up for Armageddon'' — and the explosive ''Tick Tick Boom'' shows there's ample vroom left on this garage-rock bus....full text |
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| BBC |
| Having surfed in on 2001’s garage-rock wave, The Hives have managed to hang tough at the top level. For their fourth album, they’ve astutely initiated an upgrade, hiring in their first big-cheese producer – in fact, several of them, including Jacknife Lee, and the crown prince of bling, Pharrell Williams. A few tracks, including Try It Again and the Pharrell match-up, T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S., see them hitting on a super “now”, robo-disco, glitterball vibe. Well, Alright (also penned with the boy Neptune), however, is pure hand-clapping rock’n’roll. Throughout, monster riffs abound. Perhaps this monochrome-clad cartoon combo are as great as singer Howlin’ Pelle always said they were....full text |
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| Nme |
| When The Hives rooted around for a title to slap on the cobbled-together UK release of their first two albums, 1997's 'Barely Legal' and 2000's 'Veni Vidi Vicious', and hit upon 'Your New Favourite Band', they struck gold. Who could fail to love five cartoonish, moon-eyed Swedes in Monkees-like suits, playing cranked-up garage-rock with tunes that stamped their way into your memory like a dancing foot in a white winklepicker? Along with The Strokes, they were instrumental in creating an early-noughties music scene that chucked up a new crop of ambitious chancers every time you blinked....full text |
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