‘Damn, overslept!” goes the opening line of Bogus Operandi, the first track on the Hives’ first album in a decade. A gruesome rock’n’roll tragicomedy, the single is a breakneck drive through the Swedish rockers’ mythology, plying us with the “real” reason for the 10-year wait: Randy Fitzsimmons, the fictional enigma whom they claim recruited the band and wrote all their music is – pause for effect – dead!
