Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (74/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| Blender | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| Paste | (8.6/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.4/10) |
| PopMatters | |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Spin | (7/10) |
The album so far has a score of 74 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally positive reviews". Mojo gave the album four stars out of five and said that it was "looser and more organic, and a different sonic palette for Hynde." Q also gave it four stars out of five and said, "It's Hynde who steals the show with her lip-curling vibrato, part Elvis, part Dusty, never more intoxicating than on the seductive 'Almost Perfect.'" The Boston Globe gave it a positive review and said that the album "just might be most congenial, and certainly rootsiest, collection yet."
Other reviews are average or mixed: Under the Radar gave the album six stars out of ten and said it had "a few throwaway tunes", but that it was "probably the best Pretenders album since Get Close." Uncut gave it three stars out of five and said that the album might be "a bargain... but the triumphs of yore tend to expose the new album's low-fi rockabilly and country strums." The Observer also gave it three stars out of five and said that Chrissie Hynde was "reinvestigating her roots with some rockabilly and a Dylan vibe." The Austin Chronicle, however, gave it two-and-a-half stars out of five and asked, "Why not take the five really good tracks... and offer a stellar EP for download?"
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