HIVES - The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons LP Format:LP Here Lehtisalo joins up with

Here Lehtisalo joins up with Jan Anderzén (of Kemialliset Ystävät among others) for an album of absolutely fun and unusual miniature duets that sound like alien Library music beamed in from the outerlands

The styles featured on this compilation fall somewhere between Luk Thung (‘song of the countryside’) and Luk Krung (‘song of the city’)

These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic

I had to really inhabit the show

It all adds up to a classic-sounding hardcore punk record bursting with energy and dripping with hooks

HIVES - The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons LP Format:LP Here Lehtisalo joins up withHighly recommended. CD also available. The Hives' singer Howlin' Pelle Almqvist issued a simple statement that coincided with the initial announcement of the album: "We left the throne for a decade. No one sat on it, and so here we are again." 26 years after the band's delightfully raw and furious debut Barely Legal, the Hives are back with The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, only their sixth studio album overall and their first since 2012's Lex Hives.