The Hives Breathe Again with New Song “I’m Alive”
The band are currently at work on their first new album in seven years
Photo by Goran Broberg
The Hives are still alive.
A whopping two decades since the Swedish garage rockers dropped their debut album, Barely Legal, The Hives have released a new song, “I’m Alive.” The new song is their first in four years following the 2015 single “Blood Red Moon,” and will be featured on a limited-edition, double A-side 7’, in stores this summer. And there’s more to come: “Stay tuned for news on [the band’s] first new album in seven years,” a press release teases.
Recorded in L.A. and produced by Dave Sardy, who’s worked with the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Fall Out Boy, the new song is The Hives’ first release through Third Man Records.
A bold first step in a new leg of the band’s careers, “I’m Alive” was born two decades after The Hives first exploded onto the world’s stage during the post-punk revival of the 2000s, performing alongside bands like AC/DC and The Rolling Stones.
“‘I’m Alive’ is a song about crawling up from under a rock and obliterating all resistance that sounds like crawling up from under a rock and obliterating all resistance because it is a band crawling up from under a rock and obliterating all resistance,” lead singer Pelle Almqvist explains. “Use it in your own life to help you obliterate your own resistance.”