Ah yes, THE HIVES are still around. It had been quite quiet around them, and the last album, released three years ago, wasn't exactly one of my most-listened-to albums of 2004. And even though my time with THE HIVES is actually over, I couldn't resist the impulse to buy their new album and am now the owner of it. It kicks off directly with a song that sounds like it came straight out of a "how to write a THE HIVES song workshop," but it rocks. Overall, there are some good songs on it. Powerful, poppy-spiced punk. Just typical THE HIVES. It pleases and surprises you at times. Strangely enough, at certain points, you even get slight NDW associations. For whatever reason. And it seems like they might have listened to a Tigerbombs album in the tour bus, which they wanted to incorporate into one of their songs. But wow. Some of the songs are really bad, though. You sit there and just wonder what that was supposed to be?! And while it's nice to hold an album in your hands that has 14 songs on it, it's frustrating when you can only use seven of them, two are okay, and five are just rubbish. But maybe those five songs are exactly what the bored THE HIVES fan will enjoy. And to the rest, let it be said, those who loved "Veni, Vidi, Vicious" will like this new album.
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