'Perfect Lover' is the brutally honest and autobiographical tale of a doomed love between Chrissie Hynde and Welsh musician JP Jones - ' found my perfect lover but he's only half my age / He was learning how to stand when I was wearing my first wedding band.' Despite the complexity of their relationship Chrissie and JP have found a perfect musical match in each other that manifested itself as their highly acclaimed debut album 'Fidelity!'
'Perfect Lover' is the first track on the album and is an unexpected eye opener that sets the scene for the whole record. Partnered with laid-back electric guitars the single is packed with lyrical bite and dry wit; a no-holds-barred dialogue between Chrissie, on lead vocals, and 31 year old Jones. 'Fidelity!' showcases the emotional fragility of Hynde and JP but ultimately the album proves how strong the resolve is. '[The record] burns with such passion, humor and old fashioned melody-making it doesn't even need its amazing back story to woo you' ' The New York Daily Press.
Hynde, a fiercely truthful songwriter, has never been one to mince words and has been beloved for decades by fans around the world for what one critic has called her 'steely exterior and disarming emotional vulnerability.' Having met Jones in a bar, and recently finished a tour with The Pretenders, the two decamped to the famous Hotel Nacional de Cuba overlooking Havana. Surrounded by notebooks, empty rum bottles, and cigar butts - the pair wrote the bulk of 'Fidelity!' an album that tells the story of two people who fall in love but realize their future is doomed by a 30-year age gap.
'We laughed a lot about the idea of riding around Wales in a caravan amongst kids and dogs - our kids and dogs - but, of course, that could never happen, so we put all of our irrational emotions of disappointment into a tale of woe, heartbreak, and ultimately, redemption,' Hynde says.
Described by Mojo as 'Brave and tender, tingling and troubling the nerve-endings' 'Fidelity!' sees Hynde and Jones unfurling their story, both singing lead, trading verses, and wrapping their contrasting voices around one another as if they've been singing together for much longer than a year. On its release late in 2010 The Observer declared that 'Hynde sounds supreme throughout [the album]' and Record Collector pronounced it to be 'One of the years unexpected, but quite magical, surprises.' Hynde's prowess along with the chemistry she has with Jones did not go unnoticed by The Rolling Stone 'Hynde is a force of nature with a voice that is still sexily badass.their naked ruminations on lust, love and aging feel real and lived.'
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