The Swedish rock’n’roll heroes return this summer with their first studio album in over a decade. The Fagersta quintet announces that The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons will be released on Friday, August 11 via Fuga. The announcement is accompanied by the launch of ‘ Bogus Operandi ‘, the muscular track that opens the long-awaited new LP.
The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Aube Perrie (Harry Styles, Megan Thee Stallion), who puts exciting, gory and stylish imagery to the song. The new announcement and new single precede performances this month in Los Angeles and New York, which sold out in less than 60 seconds, plus a spring tour of the U.K. and Europe with the Arctic Monkeys.
As the macabre album title hints, the band’s prolonged absence from the studio has not been a hiatus, but rather a horror story. The Swedes admit that they haven’t seen or spoken to their founder, mentor and songwriter, the perpetual Randy Fitzsimmons, since the release of Lex Hives (Disque Hives/Universal/Columbia, 2012).
Following the recent discovery of a hidden obituary and cryptic poem in the local newspaper, the band members were led to Fitzsimmons‘ gravestone. They dug into the freshly buried earth and found several tapes, costumes and a piece of paper with the words typed as if it were a title, while the tapes uncovered included the demos that would become the twelve new songs on their sixth album.
What does vocalist Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist have to say about the album?
About the new album, frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist states: “There’s no maturity or any of that shit, because who the fuck wants mature rock’n’roll? I think that’s where people get it wrong. It’s like rock’n’roll but adults, nobody wants that’ That’s literally taking away the good stuff. Rock’n’roll can’t grow up, it’s a perpetual teenager and this album feels exactly like that, which is due to our excitement and you can’t fake that shit.“.
