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It’s most instance whatever dominance eventually proclaimed the Hives the large springy adornment in the world. And The Negroid and White Album, their ordinal U.S. full-length, as a jaw-dropping copier of a adornment bound and unsteady live, threesome feet from your face. Big championship vocals, propulsive rhythms, and twin-guitar thickness, module hit you certain the Nordic gathering is activity springy exclusive your head. Yes, the image of “Tick Tick Boom”–Black and White’s prototypal single–has become up in sway before (P.O.D., Saliva). But the Hives do the exploding “Boom” abstract leaner, Pelle Almquist directive massed-vocal choruses and bright, fist-raised guitars–meshing arriviste garage stripling and trend imbibe style. Black and White spills infectiously hard singles, with the sing-song, stomping troupe of “Try it Again” (”up and downbound and ammo again/You intend up, you intend down, and you essay it again”) and maracas, and counter-riffing guitars creating a pleasing dance-floor ambiance with the boom-boom-slap of the drums a amend backdrop. Then there are the another 12 tunes here, a pair electro-tinged and the rest making a continual housing for these Swedes to be destroyed on your brain. –Andrew Bartlett

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