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Hard Promises

| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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Hard Promises is the fourth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released on May 5, 1981 on Backstreet Records. - WIKIPEDIA

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Hard Promises isn't quite so epochal, yet it has a tremendous set of songs and a unified sound that makes it one of Petty's finest records.

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Medium

There are fewer hits, and the band is settling into a slightly mellower, more developed sound. It’s a little more melancholy, grown up album.

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Mark Prindle

Hard Promises is more of the great same.

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RollingStone

That’s not a bad first step on the road from golden boy to grown-up.

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Daily Vault

Hard Promises is one of Petty and band’s stronger albums.

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People

Hard Promises still commemorates the pricing fight and the band’s commitment to making a new disc worthy of the last one.

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Starling

Petty takes his Byrds fixation to its peak on this album - this is nearly all jangly and midtempo, with only a couple of kinda-not-really-funky tracks.

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