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As promised, a slightly fuller review of the Black and White Album by the Hives.
The album opens with the new single, Tick Tick Boom, an odd name for a mad song, but very much true to the Hives’ style. And damn it’s good.
This then leads into the equally manic Try It Again (followed by You’ve Got It All… Wrong), which contains the brilliant line I quoted earlier and will quote again here for completeness:
They say the definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Despite the very recognisable Hives-esque sound of the album, the Black and White Album certainly isn’t “doing the same thing and expecting a different result”. Some have called it experimental, and arguably some tracks are.
Puppet on a String is a prime example, and is perhaps where the album falters slightly. Nevertheless, it picks-up instantly with Bigger Hole to Fill and the almost childish Fall is Just Something That Grown-ups Invented (I say almost childish in much the same way that the Aquabats are - silly, mad, and perhaps even juvenile, but great fun).
All-in-all, a superb return from the Hives. Hyper as always, but that’s one of the things that makes the Hives great. Perhaps not to everyone’s taste, but once you just sit back and enjoy the lunacy it is an incredibly catchy album.
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