The Hives - Recording 'Black and White' LP

"We wanted to kind of break with tradition a bit, so the record's kind of half and half," frontman Pelle Almqvist explained. "Half of the stuff you would recognize as a Hives song, but only a bit better than the last record. The other half is a huge departure for us; it's a record that's kind of a greatest-hits record — by a band that didn't exist. We had to record in all these different studios all over the world, and do all these different types of songs, because it would then feel like a band's entire career. That was an idea we had when we first started making the record, so, really, this one's our most diverse record by far."

-- Great in-depth piece about recording details around The Hives' upcoming release 'The Black and White Album' at MTV News.

I'm excited to hear of the band taking a slightly different recording tack, and hope it's kind of in the direction of Tyrannosaurus' Hives' "A Little More for Little You", which is a great folk (as in protest) punk song.