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Break Up The Concrete (CD)

By: The Pretenders (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Break Up The Concrete (CD) Album By The Pretenders (Artist)
1   Boots of Chinese Plastic
2   Nothing Maker, The
3   Don't Lose Faith In Me
4   Don't Cut Your Hair
5   Loves a Mystery
6   Last Ride, The
7   Almost Perfect
8   You Didn't Have To
9   Rosalee
10   Break Up the Concrete
11   One Thing Never Changes
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.78) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he best Pretenders record in years, a mix of galloping rockabilly and country & western songs, delivered in Hynde's trademark snarl..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.71) - "[W]ith her velvet-sandpaper vocals and unflappable rock-chick cool, Hynde is more than enough to build an album around....She cuts loose with an effortlessness it takes years to cultivate..." -- Grade: B
Blender (Magazine) (p.76) - "The Pretenders' ninth studio album is a pleasant roots record....Hynde sings about May-September romance and the search for the paved-over soul of her busted hometown, Akron, Ohio..."
Paste (magazine) (p.57) - "Hynde's voice is as recognizable as ever -- all slow vibrato, unrestrained high notes and staccato alto..."

Title Note

The first Pretenders album after the longest recording layoff in the band's history (six years), BREAK UP THE CONCRETE finds Chrissie Hynde re-energized, fronting a new bunch of musicians on a fresh, arresting batch of new songs released on a new label. Original drummer Martin Chambers, still part of the touring outfit, is replaced here by session-drummer king Jim Keltner. Perhaps even more significantly, new arrival Eric Heywood (pedal steel) boasts a lengthy Americana resume (Son Volt, Jayhawks, Ray LaMontagne) and brings with him the highest quotient of rootsiness ever to occupy a Pretenders album.

While there are some driving rockers that recall the glory days of "Precious" and "Tattooed Love Boys," with Keltner employing ingeniously mutated New Orleans-cum-Bo Diddley beats, a striking number of tracks here roam a more roots-rock-oriented area. Warm, organic acoustic-guitar strumming and long, keening pedal steel lines frame Hynde's one-of-a-kind voice on the slow-burning country-soul waltz "Don't Lose Faith in Me," the rather Lucinda Williams-esque "Love's a Mystery," and other smartly conceived tunes, balancing out an album that's simultaneously earthy and urgent.

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5 out of 5 stars PRETEND, October 7, 2008
By PRETENDER FREAK
THIS IS A GREATT CD LOOVE IT

4 out of 5 stars Chrissie Hynde changes pace, October 6, 2008
By Rock
This album stands apart from previous Pretenders releases. Chrissie Hynde, the only remaining member of the original band, is joined by 4 new band mates on "Break up the Concrete". The album is more of the American rock-and-roll persuasion then The Pretenders previous brit-punk flavor. Some tracks are positively folk-y- Chrissie sings with a southern drawl, which I found weird, but refreshing. The songs are good and fit together nicely. The sound is definitely more mature, and for the most part quite soulful. Worth a listen, for sure.

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