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The Pretenders: Get Close (WEA)***

Jack Barron, Sounds, 25 October 1986

JUST LIKE nectar poured over old scars, one of rock's most distinctive vocalists, Chrissie Hynde, comes out of hibernation with a miasma of sentimentality, cynicism and self-soul-flagellation in unequal doses.

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