In June, the Pretenders are also going on a European tour with Guns n’ Roses, including a Germany show. All information here.
Pretenders around Chrissie Hynde have announced a new album. RELENTLESS is the group’s fourteenth studio album and will be released on September 1, 2023. A single can be heard ahead of time: “Let The Sun Come In”.
Speaking of the album’s title, 71-year-old Hynde says: “I like to see different meanings and origins of a word. I liked the definition: ‘with undiminished intensity’. This is the life of an artist. One never withdraws. You become relentless.”
RELENTLESS: Here everything about the new album
The LP is the second consecutive Pretenders album to be a collaboration between Chrissie Hynde and James Walbourne. Walbourne has worked with the likes of Dave Gahan, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Rails.
The work was produced by David Wrench and recorded at Battery Studios in west London. The twelve tracks represent what Hynde calls “The Pretenders Collective”. This extended band includes James Walbourne (guitar), Kris Sonne (drums), Chris Hill (upright bass), Dave Page (bass) and Carwyn Ellis (keyboards and guitars).
The 14th album also features a collaboration with Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile), who contributed the string arrangements and conducted the 12-piece ensemble for the closing song “I Think About You Daily”.
Tracklist:
- 01. “Losing My Sense Of Taste”
- 02. “A Love”
- 03. “Domestic Silence”
- 04. “The Cup”
- 05. Promise Of Love
- 06. “Merry Widow”
- 07. “Let The Sun Come In”
- 08. Look Away
- 09. “Your House Is On Fire”
- 10. “Just Let It Go”
- 11. “Vainglorious”
- 12. “I Think About You Daily”
Pretenders on tour – live date in Germany
On Friday 12th May the band will embark on a sold out UK & Ireland tour. In June she goes on a European tour with Guns n’ Roses, including a show in Germany: on July 3, the Pretenders are coming to Frankfurt am Main at the Deutsche Bank Park.
The most recently released Pretenders album HATE FOR SALE was released on July 17, 2020.