Albums of the Year 2025: #63

The Hives, the best live band on the planet and still your new favourite band, are an international rock sensation. They are lauded on all continents for their masterful skill and reckless abandon in the rock music field.

They have once again, sooner than expected, created a new body of work the likes of which have never been heard or indeed probably will again. Their seventh opus, The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, is a new record full of energy, joy, anger, and life that will make you question reality as you have known it.

Every single song on this album is a hit, with every hit a direct hit in the face of the man. This long-playing album consists of thirteen pieces of music crafted with commitment, abandon, and skill in Sweden in cohorts with the esteemed producers Pelle Gunnerfeldt and Mike D of Beastie Boys.