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Track Listings
1 | American Dream Plan B |
2 | Fault Lines |
3 | Red River |
4 | Full Grown Boy |
5 | All You Can Carry |
6 | Power Drunk |
7 | Forgotten Man |
8 | Sins of My Youth |
9 | U Get Me High |
10 | Burnt Out Town |
11 | Shadow People |
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Hypnotic Eye will be the 13th studio album from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Available for sale July 29th, Hypnotic Eye is the first album from the band in four years. "I knew I wanted to do a rock & roll record," Petty told Rolling Stone in April. "We hadn't made a straight hard-rockin' record, from beginning to end, in a long time."
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.79 x 5.16 x 0.28 inches; 1.83 ounces
- Manufacturer : Reprise
- Item model number : 29085308
- Date First Available : May 28, 2014
- Label : Reprise
- ASIN : B00KIZ9F8K
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #13,979 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #6,849 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Hypnotic Eye, despite a title and album art that suggest otherwise (it's really not psychedelic music), is frequently an exploration into jazz or jazz-like music, though with rock and roll musicianship; there are also several songs here that are just rock and roll (no jazz). The songs themselves don't seem strongly structured musically, leaving a lot of room for musical flourishes by the band members. And it's those instrumental flourishes - laid down in excellent, clear recording quality - that make this album enjoyable. There's a fresh, clean sound here, and that carries the album, even if the songs themselves are a bit lacking compared with many from the past. Petty's voice also comes through as mature, melodic, smooth and clear, well suited to this type of music.
The lyrics themselves however are bleak; for much of the album TP paints a picture of a world, or at least America, gone wrong. It's dystopic and somewhat disturbing, almost post-apocalyptically surreal like the Mad Max-like video for "You Got Lucky" (or maybe TP's movie "The Postman"). Yet the band keeps swinging along for the most part, with tasteful jazz-rock perfection. And unlike Petty's past albums, there's no defiant, optimistic twist to lift our spirits. Here there's a feeling that we are all headed the wrong way, and we can't stop it. TP could have titled this album "Straight Into Darkness", if he hadn't used that title already for one of his great songs from the 80's. The net effect of very well recorded, jazzy rock and roll sounds, combined with bleak lyrics, is reminiscent of Steely Dan from the 1970's. That's not a bad thing, and while it's not what the Heartbreakers themselves gave us in the past, it's interesting - and the most energetically "rocking" the band has been since the 80's.
Musically, this is a strong, rocking performance by all the band members, as noted. I've been critical of Steve Ferrone's drumming in the past, and I still miss Stan Lynch's creativity on drums (and wonder what he might have done on this album), but Steve really delivers here - he seems to have a nice touch for jazz-like songs, with frequent cymbal usage on this album. The prominent use of cymbals themselves do remind me a bit of the early TP&HB albums, though with a distinctly different overall sound. There aren't as many of the crunchy Rickenbacker guitar sounds on this album (there are some, including on the first track), but Mike Campbell and TP's guitar work is very tasteful, at times searing, and well suited to the rock and jazz-rock oriented songs. While most of the leads are from Mike, interestingly Tom himself plays some of the leads, check out the live performances from the recent Jimmy Kimmel show, via the internet. Ron Blair's bass playing is reminiscent of the early albums too, this is the best and most prominent he's been since the very early days. Benmont Tench is also terrific on keyboards, my only disappointment is that we don't hear him take the melodic lead on acoustic piano. Given the jazzy nature of many of these songs, he could have contributed even more that way, something of a McCoy Tyner role. Maybe he'll get to do that on the next album.
As to the tracks, the only one I thought was extremely weak was "Power Drunk", which has a repetitive monotony that reminds me somewhat of "Joe" from Last DJ. The instrumental breaks keep it from being a skippable track though, thanks to some excellent guitar work. Probably my favorite song here is "All You Can Carry", which fits into the overall apocalyptic theme of facing disaster and trying to escape. The theme also seems to be about saving what you can from a failed or failing relationship, not just material possessions. "All You Can Carry" seems especially personal for TP, having lost his home and a lot of possessions in a fire in 1987. Some other strong, rocking tracks include "American Dream Part B" and "Forgotten Man"; "Red River" also has a nice sound and the lyrics somewhat recall "Casa Dega" (i.e. misplaced supernatural beliefs). A couple of slow songs break up the otherwise fast pace of the album, "Full Grown Boy" and "Sins of My Youth" - not great songs, but they keep the listener from getting worn out, showing that a lot of thought went into the album layout.
One track that seems a bit out of place musically, though in step lyrically with the album, is "Burnt Out Town". Musically it's a bluesy track that might have been at home on "Mojo", Though with the lyrics about a corrupted, collapsing city, combined with the rollicking, almost celebratory music, this would have made a good soundtrack for Biff Tannen's preferred alternate universe in "Back to The Future, Part II". The final track here, "Shadow People", has a subdued pace and a somewhat Fleetwood Mac-ish sound. It's a solemn conclusion, not bad but could be better. I'd have liked hearing the optimistic-in-the-face-of-adversity song "Something Good Coming" from Mojo tacked on the end of this album, instead of on that one, but that's not how TP envisioned it. I still prefer every one of their 70's and 80's albums to "Hypnotic Eye", those earlier albums still can't be matched. Petty has written better songs than these, and I prefer it when he interjects more defiance and optimism into his albums. Still, the overall musical vibe and instrumental flourishes are what make this one of the most worthwhile TP&HB albums since the 80's.
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Bref je conseille cet album qui est bien travaillé, bonne guitare, voix tout :)