Article: CD REVIEW: Hives album packs energy, volume

Adam Malecek
University Wire
08-31-2004
(The Daily Cardinal) (U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. -- At first, it's hard to know how seriously to take the Swedish garage-punk band the Hives Sporting names like Howlin' Pelle Almqvist and Vigilante Carlstroem and wearing matching black and white suits, they seem easily written off as another neo-garage band with a gimmick.

Then again, the band did "Declare Guerre Nucleaire" -- the first track of 2002's breakthrough "Veni Vidi Vicious" -- and they play songs with enough fury that it's impossible to doubt their passion. If the Hives' songs were as excellent as their titles such as "The Hives -- Introduce the Metric System in Time" and "The Hives Are Law, ...

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