Pretenders – Pretenders II (Vinyl) Charli XCX Release Date: 25 May 2018

Release Date: 25 May 2018

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

Recorded on a portable 4-track it was distinctly lo-fi and in tune with the DIY ethic at the heart of the burgeoning Flying Nun label

and Interscope Records

As the album opens with the minimal "Black Ants in Sound-Dust

Pretenders – Pretenders II (Vinyl) Charli XCX Release Date: 25 May 2018Pretenders 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,