The Pretenders Announce New Album ‘Relentless,’ Share First Single ‘Let the Solar Come In’

Chrissie Hynde and firm’s first LP in three years incorporates a collaboration with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood

The Pretenders are again with a brand new album, Relentless, Chrissie Hynde and firm’s first LP in three years.

“I get pleasure from seeing the assorted meanings and origins of a phrase,” Hynde stated of the album title in an announcement. “And I preferred the definition: ‘displaying no abatement of depth.’ So when it got here to an album title, it appeared becoming. …to maintain doing it. I believe anybody in a band is consistently questioning if they need to maintain going. It begins as a youthful pursuit and ultimately, it makes you surprise, why am I doing this? It’s the lifetime of the artist. You by no means retire. You change into relentless.”

Forward of the album’s September 1 launch, the Pretenders have shared the primary single, “Let the Solar Come In”:

Relentless finds Hynde and guitarist James Walborne working with producer Dave Wrench and a band they’ve dubbed The Pretenders Collective: Kris Sonne (drums), Chris Hill (double bass), Dave Web page (bass), and Carwyn Ellis (keyboards and guitars). Moreover, on the album nearer “I Suppose About You Day by day,” they collaborated with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, who orchestrated the strings on the monitor.

“I met Jonny a few instances and we’re clearly huge followers of him as a result of he’s accomplished some unbelievable music through the years,” Hynde stated in an announcement. “I noticed him on the Phantom Thread premiere the place the movie was working on display screen with a stay orchestra taking part in. And we spoke afterward and he expressed an curiosity in doing one thing at some point. I used to be thrilled and really shocked. So after we had the concept of getting strings on ‘I Suppose About You Day by day,’ he was first alternative. Legend!”

Relentless, obtainable to preorder now, additionally marks the Pretenders’ return to Warner Music Group — on this case, WMG’s Rhino label — after over 20 years away: The band initially signed in America with Seymour Stein’s Sire — a WMG subsidiary — in 1979.