AFTER 35 years as a recording artist Chrissie Hynde has finally got round to producing a solo album and says she wanted it to be danceable power pop, where Abba meets John Lennon.
Well as the title tells you, she chose the right city to ape the band that famously outsold Volvo and the right collaborator in Swedish producer/co-writer Bjorn Yttling.
The result is certainly power pop, not sure about the Abba bit, though, and similarities with Lennon are spurious at best. Not that it matters, Hynde should be less deprecating in her ambition because although now 62, her voice is still in great shape and this album has turned out to be Pretenders without Akron.
Yes there is Hynde’s trademark doleful angst, but it’s all so joyously coated that even dark ditties such as Down The Wrong Way, You Or No one and Sweet Nuthin’ are as sweet as a Werther’s Original. In the blurb Hynde says ‘In rock n roll either have a laugh or don’t come to the party.’’ On Stockholm she appears to be having a ball.
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