Jackson Browne - The Pretender: Remastered (180g Vinyl LP)

Jackson Browne's 1976 Studio Album The Pretender on 180g LP: Newly Remastered.

50 years since its original release in 1976, Jackson Browne’s acclaimed album The Pretender is being reissued by Inside Recordings. Available on 180-gram LP, the album has been remastered and is presented in a top-quality, faithful reproduction of its original packaging, overseen by Jackson Browne.

"The most striking songs on The Pretender are concerned with death and parenthood, subjects not necessarily unrelated. Often, his apocalyptic imagery is merely a way of getting at his feelings of mortality-the crumbling towers of Babylon in "The Fuse," are as much about the inevitable erosion of time as anything else. And parenthood is seen as a symbol of the middle-class life he has experienced: it's both a joy and a trap. In "Daddy's Tune," he reaches out to his father, long ago alienated, in order to share with him the turmoil of advising his son in "The Only Child." In a way, this is his ultimate dilemma - to be a father, or to be a son. And his ultimate triumph is to realize and reconcile the parent and the child in each of us. The Pretender is a breakthrough. Browne has always had traces of cynicism in his writing, but about romance he has remained firm. Love can make a difference, all of his songs say. But "The Pretender" is a song about why even that won't work, in the long run. In its most shattering moment, the hero imagines what he and his dream-lover will do, if ever they manage to meet." - Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 1976