Pretenders – Pretenders II (Vinyl) Charli XCX who featured as a guest

who featured as a guest on ‘Bush’ on the debut record

this was rock music - just - but it was conjured in the unlikeliest environment from the strangest of material

and Krautrock may have crossed over into easy listening indie pop a few albums ago

Release Date: 25 May 2018

The album avoids hooks and conventional song structures

Pretenders – Pretenders II (Vinyl) Charli XCX who featured as a guestPretenders II is an unabashed sequel to The Pretenders' debut album, offering more of the same sound, attitude, and swagger but a little slicker and more stylized than its predecessor. Any album where rockers as tough as "Message of Love" and "The Adultress" are balanced by a pop tune as lovely as "Talk of the Town" is hard to resist. And when you realize that this fantastic band only recorded two albums, you take that second album, warts and all,