The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious

The Hives Veni Vidi ViciousGet It At DiscogsRousing, stompin' garage rock from these Swedes, with plenty of mod and frantic punk energy to keep you grooving along. "Party party!," they seem to be saying, and you just want to join. This is a definite change-up from the usual hyper-speed pop ska-punk dross offered on Epitaph. Perhaps this arises from the fact that these guys are only distributed on Epitaph and yet are actually on the Burning Heart imprint. Plenty of fuzzed, struttin', propulsive guitar work on this disc to assault your ears. Well-worth your time to take a spin. More records like this need to exist. [The Japanese edition adds three songs taken from the A.K.A I-D-I-O-T EP.]