Matt Nathanson's effort, Last of the Great Pretenders, picks up on the glossy, melodic pop of
2011's Modern Love with a batch of catchy, radio-ready songs loosely conceptualized around Nathanson's
adopted home of San Francisco. Although born in Massachusetts, Nathanson relocated to San
Francisco in the âś90s and built his career. Listening to Last of the Great Pretenders, one gets the sense
that Nathanson's experiences living in the city shaped his songwriting, and the album comes off as part
diary entry, part love letter. Nathanson has always had a knack for coming up with evocative, concrete
imagery to hang his deeply romantic songs on, and San Francisco offers up plenty for him to draw upon.
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