Molloy Woodcraft 

Hypnotic Eye review – Tom Petty and company are impossible to dislike

Pithy lyrics, fine vocals and brilliant playing combine to irresistible effect on the latest offering from the US rockers, writes Molloy Woodcraft
  
  


Tom Petty and co's 13th studio album, their first since 2010's well received Mojo, is a rocked-up affair full of mid-tempo bluesy intonations. Opener American Dream Plan B sets the tone with a hard edge before melting into the chorus, All You Can Carry hints at hidden threats on the edge of town, and Red River is replete with the paraphernalia of the American occult. Petty is on good vocal form, especially on tracks such as the self-knowing Full Grown Boy and the harmonic U Get Me High, and the acute lyrical observations come thick and fast – "Pin a badge on a man and he starts to change," he sings on Power Drunk. The band are brilliant as ever (Mike Campbell's guitar work in particular), churning out the US rock sound they helped to define. Impossible not to like.

 

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