The album includes material from his 1978 debut album "Thousand Knives" and collaborations with the session group KYLYN, which featured guitarist Kazumi Watanabe.
Signed to Playboi Carti's Opium label, rising Atlanta artist Destroy Lonely released his debut mixtape NO STYLIST in 2022. Featuring a guest appearance from labelmate Ken Carson on the track "Veteran.
'Learning To Crawl' is Pretenders' third album, released after a band hiatus which saw in this time the sad passing of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon before recording started.