The Hives are back! The band have just announced their first new
album in over a decade.
Entitled The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons, their long-awaited new record – the
follow-up to 2012’s Lex Hives – is due out on August 11 via Fuga, and is
seemingly yet another super-fun release from the Swedish rock’n’rollers.
“There’s no maturity or anything like that bullshit, because who
the fuck wants mature rock’n’roll?” reasons frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist. “That’s
always where people go wrong, I feel. ‘It’s like rock’n’roll but adult,’ nobody
wants that! That’s literally taking the good shit out of it. Rock’n’roll can’t
grow up, it is a perpetual teenager and this album feels exactly like that,
which it’s all down to our excitement – and you can’t fake that shit.”
To mark the announcement The Hives have shared lead single and album opener Bogus
Operandi – watch the video below: