The Hives' debut album Barely Legal turns 25 this year, and to celebrate we have an exclusive, limited-to-300, coke-bottle-clear vinyl variant coming! The Swedish band changed gears from their sophomore album on, but Barely Legal is pure punk rock. They were on Epitaph's Swedish sister label Burning Heart alongside Millencollin, Refused, No Fun At All, and other punk bands, and on their 1997 debut album Barely Legal, they sounded like a legit punk band. The Hives of Barely Legal were more down to earth than that -- they come off more like an unpretentious New Bomb Turks-ian garage punk band than like the retromania act you saw on MTV. And though the latter is the main reason we're still talking about The Hives today, Barely Legal is nothing to scoff at.

Source: Daily Nation August 09, 2022 05:37 UTC