Once the Strokes broke open the dam for Uncooked, punky, electric rock & roll in 2001, the Hives swelled in. The group had been ripping up phases in Sweden for around ten years because of the time “Despise to convey I Instructed You So” hit the charts with its chugging riffs and frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist’s atavistic, shredded–vocal-