The Hives - Black And White Album
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Artist: The HivesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Music Label: A&M/Octone
Soundtracks:
- 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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Free Music Review: Baile bomba: The Hives - "The Black and White Album"
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Una sola palabra: adictivo. Hab?a planificado escribir la rese?a de Magic, el nuevo disco de Bruce Sprigsteen. Estaba avanzando muy motivado por el tremendo trabajo que 'The Boss' viene realizando en el nuevo milenio, cuando comet? un error mortal: compr? el reci?n salido The Black and White Album de The Hives. Ahora no puedo parar, lo escucho una y otra vez, en la combi, en el ba?o, bailo en mi cuarto, muevo la cabeza como un zombi en la chamba; he ca?do noqueado ante el nuevo pu?etazo de estos suecos... y sigo, fiel al golpe.
Todav?a aturdido puedo decir que el cuarto disco de estudio de The Hives en diez a?os es el mejor de su carrera. Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, el inquieto cantante de la banda (que en el escenario es una chillona combinaci?n de Mick Jagger e Iggy Pop), esta vez muestra sus mejores registros vocales y va del grave al agudo con mayor naturalidad y solvencia que en grabaciones pasadas (It Won't Be Long y el final Bigger Hole To Fill son prueba de ello). El resto, el fant?stico Chris Dangerous (bater?a), Dr. Matt Destruction (bajo) y los guitarristas Vigilante Carlstroem y Nicholaus Arson; componen una base musical potente y dif?cil de igualar en estos d?as.
Contin?a el fascinante rock acelerado de riffs afilados que siempre caracteriz? al grupo, sin embargo, lo m?s sorprendente y contagioso de The Black and White Album es su versatilidad r?tmica y mel?dica, lo que no se pudo escuchar del todo en los discos anteriores. Salvo por un par de tracks, Veni Vidi Vicious (segundo larga duraci?n de la banda, 2000) era un fogonazo continuo, mientras que con el excelente Tyrannosaurus Hives (2004) el grupo explor? nuevos sonidos pero sin arriesgarse del todo.
Ahora que cambiaron de traje (negro por blanco) los suecos se atreven a tocar funk en la altanera T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. (que incluso es algo `disco', a lo Earth, Wind & Fire), algo de punk a lo Ramones (Return The Favour), una misteriosa cantata en piano (Puppet On A String, que bien podr?a formar parte del repertorio de Tom Waits), o inclusive una simple melod?a instrumental con ?rgano y una caja de ritmos (la sorpresiva A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors). Ahora usan mucho m?s el sintetizador y el resultado mejora el timbre general de la banda, con holgura.
Claro que en el resultado tienen que ver, y mucho, los productores que han trabajado en The Black and White Album (La calidad del sonido tambi?n supera a los discos anteriores). Pharrell Williams, el famoso cantante de rap (N*E*R*D) y productor ganador del Grammy, trabaj? en varias de las canciones del disco. Se puede apreciar su `mano' en la irresistiblemente bailable Well Allright! (Howlin' a?lla "Everyone's a loser in the modern world") y la mencionada T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. Otro ganador de la academia de la m?sica, Jacknife Lee (que hizo Vertigo de U2 y ahora produce del pr?ximo disco de R.E.M.), es el responsable de Hey Little World. El resultado es de primera.
?Lo mejor del disco? El inicio. Si no te mueves con Tick Tick Boom (en mi opini?n, candidata a canci?n del a?o), Try It Again y su coro femenino (que grita el pegajoso estribillo "Up from the floor on the count of ten, oh you get up, you get down and you try it again"), y You Got It All... Wrong, simplemente no tienes m?sculos en el cuerpo.
Que contin?e el baile desenfrenado.
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It's about time some authority finally declared the Hives the greatest live band in the world. And The Black and White Album, their third U.S. full-length, as a jaw-dropping facsimile of a band leaping and lurching live, three feet from your face. Big backing vocals, propulsive rhythms, and twin-guitar thickness, will have you convinced the Swedish quintet is playing live inside your head. Yes, the trope of "Tick Tick Boom"--Black and White's first single--has come up in rock before (P.O.D., Saliva). But the Hives do the exploding "Boom" thing leaner, Pelle Almquist leading massed-vocal choruses and bright, fist-raised guitars--meshing upstart garage punk and sheer pop style. Black and White spills infectiously catchy singles, with the sing-song, stomping chorus of "Try it Again" ("up and down and round again/You get up, you get down, and you try it again") and maracas, and counter-riffing guitars creating a fab dance-floor vibe with the boom-boom-slap of the drums a perfect backdrop. Then there are the other 12 tunes here, a couple electro-tinged and the rest making a persistent case for these Swedes to be burned on your brain. --Andrew BartlettThough the garage-rock boom of the early '00s has long since passed, Sweden's The Hives are among the few to have survived the hype and continued playing their brand of rough, howlin' rock. The quintet has actually found a nice middle ground over the seven years since 2000's Veni Vidi Vicious, gaining respectable appreciation in the U.S. without breaking out huge like it seemed they might. By the sound of The Black And White Album however, they're not content with that.
Broader, more adventurous, and sporting production credits from Modest Mouse collaborator Dennis Herring and The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams, Black and White is the band's most nakedly ambitious release. At least half of the record is among their best work to date; lead track "Tick Tock Boom," for instance, is an absolute gas, full of exuberant stomp and rowdy glam. As the record progresses, so too does the experimentation. "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S." drives their stripped-down rock into new wave territory, like Queen once did on "Another One Bites the Dust" (except Queen pulled it off). Some songs, like the quirky, borderline-ridiculous "Giddy Up!" go off the deep end completely. But like everything The Hives do, the album is interesting even at its worst--and totally fantastic at its best. --Matthew Cooke
Ladies and gentlemen, THE HIVES return with The Black and White Album!
Recording around the world (Sweden, Memphis, Miami, London) with a mind-blowing cast of producers (Dennis Herring, Pharrel Williams, Jacknife Lee) THE HIVES are set to release the definitive, kick-your-ass, funky, fun, and of course, rock n rollin' record of your life!
Check out their Fall 2007 tour with Maroon 5!
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2007 release of the Swedish rockers' follow-up to to the successful Tyrannosaurus Hives. Having achieved a considerable amount of international success, The Black and White Album was recorded in different parts of the world to expand the band's sound and experience what other places have to offer. After some initial recording at Hive Manor, the group recorded outside of Sweden for the first time to put music to tape. The majority of tracks were recorded in Mississippi with producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello). In Miami, they collaborated with R&B superstar Pharrell Williams, (resulting in 'T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S' and 'Well Allright!'), while in London, they recorded at Olympic Studios with Jacknife Lee (U2, Bloc Party, Editors) at the helm (producing 'Hey Little World'). Features the first single 'Tick Tick Boom'. Interscope.
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