Does the title refer to The Beatles White album and Metallicas Black album?
Yes, but mainly as a bit of Hives oneupmanship. It is a play on the pretension of calling your album The Black or The White. The only band that could pull off both would be us. It is more varied than previous albums. Why? We have always listened to all kinds of music and decided this time it would be fun if you could actually hear it. We really needed to stretch the identity of the band. The only mortal sin for a band is boredom. Is it true you worked with seven producers in eight studios on 30 songs? How did you select the final 14? That sounds about right. The 30 songs, however, were not all recorded. At some point we just had to say “enough” and make an album. The 14 songs were picked by a friend. There was just no way that we could agree.
Yes, but mainly as a bit of Hives oneupmanship. It is a play on the pretension of calling your album The Black or The White. The only band that could pull off both would be us. It is more varied than previous albums. Why? We have always listened to all kinds of music and decided this time it would be fun if you could actually hear it. We really needed to stretch the identity of the band. The only mortal sin for a band is boredom. Is it true you worked with seven producers in eight studios on 30 songs? How did you select the final 14? That sounds about right. The 30 songs, however, were not all recorded. At some point we just had to say “enough” and make an album. The 14 songs were picked by a friend. There was just no way that we could agree. It’s an impressive list of producers – Pharrell Williams, Jacknife Lee, Dennis Herring . . . why so many? The first thing we did was with Pharrell and that was never meant to be the full album. He is a very busy man. Then we were trying for Dennis
Yes, but mainly as a bit of Hives oneupmanship. It is a play on the pretension of calling your album The Black or The White. The only band that could pull off both would be us. It is more varied than previous albums. Why? We have always listened to all kinds of music and decided this time it would be fun if you could actually hear it. We really needed to stretch the identity of the band. The only mortal sin for a band is boredom. Is it true you worked with seven producers in eight studios on 30 songs? How did you select the final 14? That sounds about right. The 30 songs, however, were not all recorded. At some point we just had to say “enough” and make an album. The 14 songs were picked by a friend. There was just no way that we could agree. It’s an impressive list of producers – Pharrell Williams, Jacknife Lee, Dennis Herring . . . why so many? The first thing we did was with Pharrell and that was never meant to be the full album. He is a very busy man. Then we were trying for Dennis
