The Pretenders: Hate For Sale (BMG)
David Bennun, Metro, 14 July 2020
CRIKEY. If you didn't know it was 2020 — if there were any way not to know it's 2020 — then the new Pretenders album might have you convinced you'd time-warped back to the early 1980s, when the Pretenders were among the best, coolest and most exciting rock groups on the planet. Because this is prime — and primal — stuff from Chrissie Hynde and company.
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