Swedish rockers The Hives have spilt the beans on their forthcoming new record ‘Lex Hives’, following their ’terrible couple of years’ after the release of 2007’s ‘The Black and White Album’.
Speaking to NME, frontman Howlin' Pelle Almqvist told NME that they were now past their ‘dark ages’ – which saw them have a very troubled time with ‘rock n’ roll style kind of problems’ – and then revealed the details of the new album, which is set to hit shelves on June 5th.
“There's no formula, but it definitely sounds like The Hives,” Almqvist told the site. “Every good band there is has a certain sound. There are a few songs that couldn't have been on any of other Hives album, that are sort of a departure, but I'd say that kind of happened on the last time album too. But I'd also say that they couldn't have been on any other album by anybody else either.
“We're not 21 anymore. Most of the influences come from within or they're so ingrained in our DNA that we don't really think of them as influences anymore. We haven't really listened to other music for almost two years because we've been working on the album. There's a few different tempos. And then there are some songs that are in a style that I don't think anyone has done before, at all. I'm really excited about it. And if it's exciting to me, then it's exciting to most other people as well.
“Last time we recorded a lot of it aboard and this time we thought we'd record it in Stockholm, pretty much every good studio in Stockholm. We'd get some songs together, then we'd record for a week, then we'd go home and get some more songs together and we'd keep going like that. We also spent one week in the Hansa studio in Berlin, trying to get the Iggy drum sound.”
He also added that the band had also begun work on another album, despite this record not coming out for a couple of months.
“We feel like we've got a pretty good start on the next one already. It'll probably be six years down the line before we release it though.”
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