Which wouldn’t be great, of course, without a killer groove and great tune. Listen to “Faultlines,” a great essential new song for the uneasy emotional landscape which is Los Angeles, using the constant threat of total disaster – an earthquake – as a symbol for the disquiet of love. The result is one of his strongest and most focused collection of exceptional songs.īut you don’t have to take my word for it. Though even those he loves, it seems, are not always on his side. He knows how to speak to our hearts and our minds at the same time. Even in the bluesy songs comes a chorus of exultant tunefulness, reminding us that the man knows how to construct a song. It’s also an album of much beauty and fury. Produced by Tom and Mike Campbell with Ryan Ulyate (who also recorded and mixed), it’s an album of much disquiet, of superstition, corruption and evil unchecked, leavened only by the limitless power of love. But at this age, and after so much success, it’s triumphant. It is remarkable at any age to write great songs. Petty, who started with greatness and has continued to ascend over the decades, while so many of his peers aren’t even in the game anymore. Much more common, as we all know, is for a songwriter to peak in his 20s, and never match the greatness of their first work. Tom rocks through this album with the great Heartbreakers, and does the unthinkable for most songwriters of his age: he’s written some of the best songs of his life. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Hypnotic EyeĮxultant.
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