PRETENDERS - s/t LP shoegaze broken as your own soul

broken as your own soul

and draws heavily from early post-punk

it wasn’t long before this inspired five piece created material of their own

Gatefold with deluxe

With releases like this it's clear that Rollins was stepping into the driver's seat of a well-tuned and capable machine

PRETENDERS - s/t LP shoegaze broken as your own soul40th anniversary edition. 180 gram vinyl. Remastered. Highly recommended. The birth of Cool Wave! Definitely one of the greatest debut albums of all time embodying equal parts punk, ska and rock. New Wave may have been born a few years earlier but Chrissie Hynde and company bring it to the next level. James Honeyman Scott's guitar talents are everywhere and songs like "Private Life" leave us with the promise of what could have been. Staples include