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The Pretenders have shared the first single to be taken from their upcoming album, ‘Relentless’ — check out ‘Let The Sun Come In’ below, as well as the full tracklist.The upcoming release will mark the band’s 12th full-length LP, and follows on from their 2020 album ‘Hate For Sale’. Although the band teased the release earlier this year, it has today (May 11) been confirmed that it will arrive on September 1 via Parlophone.According to the members, the album is set to represent a snapshot of where the band are in 2023, and arrive with the same “impulsiveness” and “attitude” that they captured in previous fan-favourites, including ‘I’ll Stand By You’ and ‘Back On The Chain Gang’.“I liked the definition: ‘showing no abatement of intensity,’” said Chrissie Hynde of the meaning behind the title.

The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde has announced a UK tour where she will sing songs from Bob Dylan’s extensive back catalogue, as well as some other favourites.The tour announcement comes weeks after Hynde released ‘Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan’, made up of nine covers of Dylan’s songs including ‘Murder Most Foul’ and ‘Every Grain of Sand’.“A few weeks into lockdown last year, [Pretenders bandmate James Walbourne] sent me the new Dylan track ‘Murder Most Foul’.

The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde has shared details of a new Bob Dylan covers album that she recorded largely over text.‘Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan’ comprises nine renditions of Dylan’s songs, released via BMG on May 21 – a few days before the icon’s 80th birthday.Hynde made the record “almost entirely by text message” with her Pretenders bandmate James Walbourne who, according to a press release, would record an initial idea on his phone and send it to Hynde to add

The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde and James Walbourne have released their latest Bob Dylan cover — listen to the pair’s version of ‘Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight’ below.The track is the seventh instalment in their ‘Dylan Lockdown Series’, which has previously seen them cover ‘Standing in the Doorway’, ‘In The Summertime’ and ‘You’re A Big Girl Now’.Hynde and Walbourne’s latest cover is of ‘Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight’, which is the closing track on Dylan’s 1983 album ‘Infidels’.

Hynde teamed up with her Pretenders bandmate James Walbourne for the rendition