With their cool 2023 comeback album The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, the Swedish heavy saver had grave the eleven-year studio break as well as their alleged managers and songwriters. So if you want-analogous to the band fairy-, you can consider the seventh The-Hives album as a fresh start.
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In addition to long-term constant and producer Pelle Gunnerfeldt (Viagra Boys), Beastie Boy Mike D and (advisory) Queens-of-the-Stone-Age boss Josh Homme Homme also gave creative shooters. The band’s self-explanatory goal: to create 12 potential singles for a Hives-Arena album. The unwritten three-minute song bid only exceeded in exceptional cases, you get this requirement quite close.
The “Enough is Enough” opener leads the Stooges to the stadium, “Hoooray Hooray Hooray” takes the Skandi rock exit towards Turbalegro. Underones-like hit potential has “Paint a picture”. The fact that at the end of the album the 70s punk factor is screwed back and songs such as “Born a Rebel” or “Path of Most Resistance” (which the Beatsteaks are well on the face) in the best Eagles-of-Death Metal sense of the dance floor are giving more space than the 90s cool Britannia Evozentrack at the final.
This review was first published in the MusikExpress 09/25.