Alone is the first Pretenders album in eight years and was recorded in Nashville, TN. Originally intended as a solo follow-up to 2014's Stockholm, it soon became obvious that those driving guitars, ragged-but-righteous arrangements, tough-yet tender lyrics delivered by the most beautifully distinctive voice of a generation, sounded fantastically familiar — The Pretenders were back. Thirty six years after their remarkable first album, Alone could be the older, wiser, badder sister to that exhilarating debut.