Norwegians bring their own distinct take on the genre with a brooding post-punk aesthetic à la the BIRTHDAY PARTY and fuzzed-out guitar tones reminiscent of the GUN CLUB. Tracks like “All in My Head” reverberate with a darker, more theatric tone like the DAMNED post-Phantasmagoria, and there’s plenty of Nuggets-era hooks like those of the ELECTRIC PRUNES.
From Norway, the HIVEMINDS deliver solid mid-tempo (to uptempo) garage punk that has a DOORS eeriness about it. It’s catchy as all hell and sounds like it’s right out of the Nuggets catalog. Scandinavians are connoisseurs of rock’n’roll music. Hell, maybe they’re connoisseurs of all music. You get that in a lot of their music. This one is garage-y throughout, with some moments of New Wave, but it retains that somberness from start to finish. In addition to the DOORS, think of the GUN CLUB. Nice organ work. Good stuff.
