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- Summary: The latest full-length release from the Pretenders features Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, who provided string arrangements and conducted the 12 Ensemble for the album’s final track, "I Think About You Daily."
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- Record Label: Rhino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Sep 15, 2023Relentless might just be one of the most thrilling things you’ll hear all year. It’s a slow-burning triumph, its 12 tracks oscillating between squalling and shimmering rockers and richly-realised ballads thanks in large part to Hynde’s masterly co-writer and guitarist James Walbourne.
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Aug 28, 2023Relentless is a masterly achievement, tasting of truth.
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Sep 14, 2023A balance of material, performance, and production mirrors the bandleader’s emotional equanimity in such sublime fashion, Relentless is as close to perfect as long-player out this year.
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Sep 5, 2023At this point, a Pretenders album is whatever she says it is and Relentless is a good one.
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Classic Rock MagazineSep 15, 2023It takes a few listens, but once it swims into focus it's another knockout. [Oct 2023, p.82]
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Sep 13, 2023There may be nothing to touch Pretenders classics like Brass In Pocket or Don’t Get Me Wrong, but Relentless is an appropriately named album – the sound of a band constantly moving forward and refusing to submit to the dying of the light.
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Sep 12, 2023The resulting tension in many of Hynde’s songs comes from the push-pull between connected love and guarded aloneness, and it propels much of Relentless.