Hate for sale

"The drug-related deaths of original Pretenders James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon still hang heavy, rearing in the stark blast of Junkie Walk, but are countered effectively by the heart-melting ballads she's turned into her art-form, You Can't Hurt A Fool and Crying In Public up there with her best".

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"på bandets 11. studiealbum Hate for Sale, lyder The Pretenders igen som The Pretenders. Et hårdt huggende rockband, der har fundet tilbage til garagen. Et imponerende vitalt album for et band, der ikke altid har haft gnisten, der skulle antænde bålet ... det [er] den stærkt revitaliserede garagerock, der tegner sangene. De er alle skåret stramt og afleveret med en fart og løb i melodierne ... Med Hate for Sale er der bestemt en fremtid for The Pretenders' nu klassiske rock og en Chrissie Hynde, der stadig er god for en række stærke statements i sangene".

"Chrissie Hynde brings back some old bandmates for a brisk record that acknowledges The Pretenders are best when they're direct and unadorned".

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"Hate for Sale was written in tandem with the Pretenders' touring lineup. There is chemistry here, making for tight songs that prance insouciantly from genre to genre, scattering wisdom and swagger in their wake".

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"The eleventh studio album by Chrissie Hynde's enduring brand finds new energy in looking back: Few Pretenders albums have honoured the classic line-up's template som faithfully or successfully as "Hate For Sale"".