The Hives wished their new album to be “silly and infantile”.
The Swedish band are again with their first new music in 11 years they usually have declared they did not need their comeback album ‘The Demise Of Randy Fitzsimmons’ to be filled with dreary “grownup rock” – with frontman Pelle Almqvist insisting he did not need them to sound like they’ve “matured”.
He instructed NME: Think about: ‘The Hives have been away from 10 years and now they’ve matured’. It was essential to go the other approach.
“This must be f****** silly and infantile, even worse than we’ve been earlier than! The punk songs on this album are virtually worse than our first report. ‘The Bomb’ and ‘Trapdoor Resolution’ are virtually like us reaching the ceiling of it.
“What Did I Ever Do To You’ was virtually born out of the frustration of not making a Hives album.”
Guitarist Niklas Almqvist added: “[The album is] fast-paced, energetic, rock’n’roll and punk. It’s a superb feeling, and from having been away for thus lengthy, it was what we ended up doing from sheer pleasure. You need to come again with a bang, you don’t need to come again with ‘grownup rock’.”
The follow-up to 2012’s ‘Lex Hives’ is about for launch on August 11. The title ‘The Demise Of Randy Fitzsimmons’ is a reference to Niklas Almqvist’ fictitious alter-ego who they claimed was answerable for writing their songs and managing the group.
They mentioned in a press launch: “Because the album’s macabre title hints, the band’s prolonged absence from the studio has been no hiatus however reasonably a horror story. “The Hives now admit they haven’t seen nor spoken to their founder, mentor and songwriter, the perpetual limelight-shunning Randy Fitzsimmons, because the launch of 2012’s ‘Lex Hives’. Following the current discovery of a hidden away obituary and cryptic poem within the native paper of the Northern Vastmanland city the place The Hives are from, the band members have been led to Fitzsimmons’ tombstone. “Upon digging the freshly interred floor, the band discovered not a physique however as a substitute a number of tapes, fits, and a bit of paper bearing the phrases ‘The Demise Of Randy Fitzsimmons’.”
