The Hives’ latest studio album is out on New Music Friday – revisit Live4ever’s review and stream the record right here.
“Live4ever first met Swedish noisemakers The Hives during a festival performance at the turn of the century; with typical hubris frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist introduced Die, Alright! as, ‘Our next single, so buy it – or don’t, it doesn’t matter, because I’m independently wealthy’.”
“Suited and booted, the quintet’s primitive rock n’ roll and residual self-image as rock iconoclasts has rarely wavered since. In the lead up to the release of their first album in over a decade, since 2012’s Lex Hives, Almqvist was keen to reiterate the band’s vision: “We don’t do ‘pretty good’. The world has enough OK rock music. We’re only here to play fantastic rock music.””
“Their newest work however comes with a slightly tortuous and almost certainly fictional backstory, of the character the title refers to and his mysterious supposed passing from this world.”
Click here for the review in full