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LOOSE SCREW
Pretenders
(Artemis/Sony)
Chrissie Hynde stopped pretending she cared about being a rock star years ago. Nowadays, we get the sense the veteran singer-songwriter makes music only to please one person -- herself.
So Loose Screw, her eighth studio effort and the third disc from her and drummer Martin Chambers' latest version of the Pretenders, isn't remarkably different from her last few releases. You get a couple of spiky pop-rockers like Lie to Me and Fools Must Die; a handful of smoky skank-poppers like Time and Complex Person; a couple of slinky slow-groovers like Kinda Nice, I Like It and Walk Like a Panther; the odd heartbreak ballad like The Losing to showcase her eternally spine-tingling vocals; and -- perhaps most importantly -- a couple of inclusions of the f-word, which Hynde still utters with more raw sexuality than any other woman in rock.
All in all, Loose Screw is a long way from Precious, but we'd be pretending if we said we weren't still glad to hear from Chrissie every now and then.
Track Listing
1. Lie To Me
2. Time
3. You Know Who Your Friends Are
4. Complex Person
5. Fools Must Die
6. Kinda Nice, I Like It
7. Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
8. I Should Of
9. Clean Up Woman
10. The Losing
11. Saving Grace
12. Walk Like A Panther