The Black and White Album
2007 studio album by The Hives
The Black and White Album is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band the Hives, released on 8 October 2007 through A&M/Octone and Polydor Records. The Hives recorded 20 to 30 songs (including seven recorded with producers the Neptunes) for this album from which they finally chose the best. Other tracks were produced by Jacknife Lee and Dennis Herring. Sessions were held with Timbaland, with whom the band produced the song "Throw It On Me", but took place too late for any of the resulting tracks to be on the album. They hoped to use these songs as B-sides. It is the band's longest album and the only one over the length of 32 minutes.
Background
The band revealed in an NME interview that one song, "Puppet on a String", has just "piano and hand claps". The song "A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors" is an instrumental using just a 1960s organ and a drum machine.
"Well All Right!" and "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S." were produced by Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes, and "Try It Again" features the cheerleading squad from the University of Mississippi.
A video for "Won't Be Long" was released on the Hives Myspace on 26 August 2008.
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