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This fall, the Pretenders will return with their ninth studio album and first since 2002's Loose Screw. The record is called Break Up the Concrete, and it comes out via Shangri-La Music on October 7.

Called a "roots album" in the press materials, Break Up the Concrete features band leader Chrissie Hynde fronting an entirely new group of musicians. Four new dudes pretending to be the Pretenders...does that count as irony?

The iTunes edition of Break Up comes with bonus tracks "Tequila" and "Can't Help Falling in Love", while those who preorder from iTunes will get an additional bonus track called "977".

Catch the Pretenders sharing a bill with the Hold Steady (!) September 19 at Baltimore's Sonar as part of Noise in the Basement.

Break Up the Concrete:

01 Boots of Chinese Plastic
02 The Nothing Maker
03 Don't Lose Faith in Me
04 Don't Cut Your Hair
05 Love's a Mystery
06 The Last Ride
07 Almost Perfect
08 You Don't Have To
09 Rosalee
10 Break Up the Concrete
11 One Thing Never Never Changed
12 Tequila *
13 Can't Help Falling in Love *
14 977 ^

* iTunes bonus track
^ iTunes preorder bonus track