![]() “On Hypnotic Eye, the 63-year-old and his eternal Heartbreakers return to the scrappy heat of those early days with their toughest, most straight-up rocking record in many years, deepened by veteran perspective,” he says. In his four-star review, Rolling Stone‘s Jon Dolan agrees. At the very least, he’s not one of those unfeeling, self-oriented, materialistic ‘Shadow People’ he sniffs at in the final track,” says Partridge. He’s done some things he’s maybe not proud of (see: “Sins of My Youth”), but come out with his soul intact. ![]() “Singing over punchy backings sure to get folks reminiscing about Damn the Torpedoes and Hard Promises, two of his early classics, Petty takes stock of his life, thumbs his nose at cops and parents, and decides he’s happy chasing his foolish rock ‘n’ roll dreams. Instead, ‘s Kenneth Partridge is calling it a “return to form,” saying in his 85/100, track-by track review that: “In a sense, it’s where he’s always been.” Whatever the title may suggest, Hypnotic doesn’t focus on the Billboard‘s cover star‘s beliefs about transcendental meditation. ![]() But that’s no reason to hang up his hat, as the classic rock aficionado has just released his 15th studio album - and 13th with the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye (Reprise). Already selling more than 80 million total albums in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career, Tom Petty (along with his perennial band the Heartbreakers) is one of the best-selling artists of all time.
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