Part of the same generation as
the Hellacopters and
the International Noise Conspiracy,
although lumped with the great rock'n'roll swindles of the 2000s (the White Stripes, the Strokes),
Swedish garage-rockers Hives
(fronted by vocalist Howlin' Pelle Almqvist)
debuted with the EP Oh Lord! When? How? (1996)
and the mini-album Barely Legal (Burning Heart, 1997 - Gearhead, 2002),
which included their anthem A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T.
The real treat was Veni Vidi Vicious (Burning Heart, 2000 - Gearhead, 2002), one of the most serious offenders of the era
(Hate to Say I Told You So, Main Offender).
Your New Favourite Band (Poptones, 2002 - Sire, 2004) is an anthology.
Tyrannosaurus Hives (Interscope, 2004) was a disappointment, a largely
watered-down version of their classic sound. It includes
A Little More for Little You,
Walk Idiot Walk (reminiscent of the Who's I Can't Explain)
Love in Plaster, Dead Quote Olympics,
Diabolic Scheme and Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones.
Each of these could have competed for stand-out of their career, except
that here it is played with an odd sort of indifference.
The three worthwhile ditties out of
The Black And White Album (A&M, 2007), namely
Tick Tick Boom,
Giddy Up and T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S, are wildly different in style
from each other, but share one common attribute: they all sound like
parodies of the 1970s.
Lex Hives (2012) sounds like a vain exercise in nostalgia: there are
echoes of classic rock in almost every song, and never particularly well
amalgamated.
The single Go Right Ahead is reminiscent of the
Electric Light Orchestra's
Don't Bring me Down.
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