Barely Legal by The Hives: Garage Rock/Punk. The debut album comes crashing out of the boxes at break neck speed and doesn’t ease up until the final song has finished playing. Though there are no immediate songs that jump out at the listener you cannot fault the energy behind every song. They weren’t going to big however until they managed to write a couple of stand out tunes, but as a piece of lightening captured on plastic, you could do far worse from a genre that can be a little too much the same. Just don’t work out to this album. TWH: A.K.A. Idiot; I’m A Wicked One; Hail Hail Spit n’ Drool

Grade: B