The Hives frontman ‘Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist has admitted the Swedish band have been through a lot of problems since the release of ‘The Black and White Album‘ in 2007.
“It’s been a terrible couple of years for the band,” Almqvist revealed when asked by NME about the long delay between album releases. “We’re out of the dark ages now though, but we’ve had a lot of problems. Problems of all kinds. Rock ‘n’ roll kind of problems, but we’re ready to go now.”
“All the stuff that happens in rock bios, all the things that seem like problems for a band, all that sort of thing. It’s the same band though, now and forever. We had every other problem, but not that one. It’s the same band. We feel really good now, strong, happy and excited.”
The long awaited follow-up to ‘The Black and White Album’ – ‘Lex Hives‘ – is due for release on June 5th. It will be preceded by the single ‘Go Right Ahead‘.