The Hives

Editor's Review:

The Hives have “done it before and can do it some more,” and with the release of their fourth and most recent work, The Black and White Album, they’ve proven just that. The record has everything you originally loved about them — kicks, riffs and all around good times — but their new songs are longer and generally different from anything they’ve done in the past. It’s all about expanding the band’s horizons. The Hives promised themselves they’d make three, half-hour-long records of fast blistering punk rock, and it seems the task has been fulfilled. Since the band works in sets of three, their new album called for a new period and a new plan.

    This is The Hives’ major label adventure and is a self-proclaimed honest attempt at a sellout. For the record, the band used a variety of producers, including Pharrell Williams, the number-one producer in the hits-hungry world of hip-hop. When the two giants of modern entertainment collided, the union of their differing talents worked like magic, setting The Black and White Album on its long and unwavering path toward massiveness. In the modern day and age, there’s a complete lack of proper, good rock riffin’, and The Hives deliver just that. With plenty of tambourine work, cowbell, handclapping and piano accompaniment, The Hives are ready for global supremacy.
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Record Label A&M/Octone Released November 2007

Tracks Tick Tick Boom Try It Again You Got It All…Wrong Well All Right Hey Little World A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors Won’t Be Long T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. Return The Favour Giddy Up! Square One Here I Come You Dress Up for Armageddon Puppet on a String Bigger Hole to Fill

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