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10.0
134828
10.0 |
The Skinny
Eleven years after their last studio album, The Hives have returned with a vengeance, doing their bit to help rock'n'roll supplant flatpack furniture as Sweden’s greatest export
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8.4
134882
8.4 |
Northern Transmissions
They’re coming back strong, even if their muse or the brains behind their organization is finally, fictionally dead
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8.0
134888
8.0 |
Dork
Vocalist Howlin’ Pelle was right when he said rock’n’roll can’t grow up, and thank God it can’t because even after over 20 years in the business, The Hives know exactly how to please an audience
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8.0
134892
8.0 |
musicOMH
Featuring some of their best work to date, it’s reassuring to know that these Swedes still know how to take your mind off your troubles
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8.0
134855
8.0 |
Exclaim
After a decade-long break, the Hives haven't dug their own grave, just set the stage for their resurrection.
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8.0
134856
8.0 |
NME
Following a mammoth support tour with Arctic Monkeys, the Swedes' first album in a decade is playful, juvenile and nails the brief
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8.0
134857
8.0 |
Paste Magazine
The Swedish band’s sixth LP boasts some of their best songs
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8.0
134861
8.0 |
The Guardian
Their first album in a decade delivers a riotously good time, in a breakneck drive through the band’s mythology
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
A breakneck blend of craft, experience, fun, and excitement, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons is the most concentrated dose of the band's magic since Tyrannosaurus Hives
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8.0
134871
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Absolutely ridiculous, riotous fun
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8.0
134832
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
The Hives have bashed out another forceful and glorious noise for public consumption
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8.0
134836
8.0 |
DIY
If anything, it feels like a return to their roots
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8.0
134837
8.0 |
XS Noize
Just pure, unadulterated belligerence
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8.0
134839
8.0 |
Gigwise
Best played at maximum volume
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7.3
134880
7.3 |
Spectrum Culture
All you need to know is that the Hives invented a narrative reason for the band to roar back into life, and that the end result is a high-octane return-to-form for a band that turned their hard-rock-sleaze kayfabe into something just as glorious as what they managed to conjure up in their heyday
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7.0
134891
7.0 |
No Ripcord
An unfair degree of skepticism can surround a band like The Hives for firing in all cylinders well into their forties, but there's no denying their commitment and passion to staying in character on and off the stage
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7.0
134829
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
With the garage rock scene rearing its wonderful head once more, The Hives’ showcase of retrofitted riffs and reinvention puts to bed the idea they should be left to throwback nostalgia or blueprints for starting guitarists rehearsing in basements
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7.0
134830
7.0 |
Uncut
It's back-to-basics good fun garage rock, and while it's familiar territory it's undeniable that the band know their way around a hook. Print edition only
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6.9
134875
6.9 |
Pitchfork
On their first album in over a decade, the Swedish garage-rock mainstays refuse to evolve or age—they are here for a good time and absolutely nothing else
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6.0
134831
6.0 |
Mojo
Over 12 mostly blueprint-hugging songs returns diminish, but scuzzy beat-box disco outrider What Did I Ever To You is great. Print edition only
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6.0
134851
6.0 |
Clash
‘Rigor Mortis Radio’ and the sledgehammer riffs of lead single ‘Bogus Operandi’ result in a particularly thrilling racket, if unlikely to convert any new fans, but you sense perhaps, that was never really their intention
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