HYPNOTIC EYE
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
HYPNOTIC EYE
Hypnotic Eye is the thirteenth and final studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on July 29, 2014, by Reprise Records.[The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the only Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album ever to top the chart. Hypnotic Eye was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. It would turn out to be the band's last studio album released prior to Petty's death on October 2, 2017. -WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Tom Petty has saved drive time once again, just like he’s been doing since he was a cranky young man himself.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Urgent, committed, viscerally present, Hypnotic Eye is both a reminder and a scrappy update of Petty's greatness.
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CoS
Listening to Hypnotic Eye, you can rest assured he’s still kicking.
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Billboard
A tight, spirited follow-up to 2010’s bluesier, less essential Mojo.
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Record Collector
Not every track is brilliant, but Petty’s intention to make a rock album has been realised for the most part.
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The Telegraph
Track for track, it’s the equal of anything Petty has released in a long and righteously distinguished career.
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American Songwriter
Hypnotic Eye is a bastion of consistent excellence.
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Boston Globe
Hypnotic Eye offers the band mostly in lean, mean, garage-rock machine mode firing up the fuzz and swagger.
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Daily News
It’s his catchiest, most sharply focused album in years.
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paste
Almost 40 years on, Tom Petty has been kind to his mind and his voice. And the Heartbreakers have been kind to Petty. Hypnotic Eye is all the proof you need.
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The New York Times
As romance, ethics, community and the economy collapse, Mr. Petty and the Heartbreakers offer two old-fashioned bulwarks: the solidarity of the band and the sinewy construction of the songs.
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The Observer
Impossible not to like.
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popMATTERS
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have provided a blistering reminder of rock ‘n’ roll’s subversive nature with Hypnotic Eye
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ALL MUSIC
This is a surprisingly, satisfyingly vigorous record.
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Under the Radar
It's striking to hear a nearly 40-year-old outfit present one of their best albums yet.
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Chicago Tribune
His defiance underlines the music, animates it, makes it feel vital even if it may sound familiar.
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SPIN
No myths to sell, just the idea of a working rock band reclaiming what's left of a center-right boomer rock coalition. Hypnotic Eye gets my vote.
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NME
It won’t convert the unconvinced, but Petty sounds as inspired as ever.
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SLANT
By the time the second half of the album rolls around, the near-constant procession of sluggish tempos and downbeat refrains begins to wear.... These missteps aren't enough to erase the positive impression of Hypnotic Eye's best moments, but they may cause you to wish that Petty would just lighten up already.
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exclaim
Hypnotic Eye may just be a solid middle-of-the-pack release as far as Petty albums go, but only a fool would complain about having another 45 minutes of music from one of rock & roll's premier units.
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The Austin Chronicle
Decades from now, Petty people will wonder at how a modest marvel like Hypnotic Eye aged into a late-career riff rocket.
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AV/MUSIC
Hypnotic Eye ends up a dynamic mini-album--but doesn’t quite sustain its momentum for an entire full-length.
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NOW
None of them are as immediately catchy or memorable, and perhaps that’s to be expected. But Petty and Co. are at ease and doing what they please.
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The Line of Best Fit
Hypnotic Eye is little more than a decent record with a few ideas above its station.
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Blurt
Although it’s easy to lament the fact that Petty and the Heartbreakers don’t vary all that much from their usual template. Hypnotic Eye also affirms the fact they remain an austere and unapologetic outfit.
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The Guardian
The songwriting is solid, the musicianship familiarly old-school, and while Hypnotic Eye lacks the killer standout tracks he turned out by the truckload in his youth, it packs enough vim and energy to suggest the fire is far from out.
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Uncut
Petty and band return with their hardest-rocking album in 25 years.
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Uproxx
“Hypnotic Eye” sees all and has so much to say.
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OVERBLOWN
It’s a shame artists don’t typically have less than 10 songs on an album, there’d be a better average of great albums if they did. Yet this is still a very good album. Pleasantly surprising.
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Vintage Rock
Not that he's trying, but Tom Petty can't seem to make a bad record.
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No Depression
Like the band, the new record Hypnotic Eye spans generations and will be savored by audiophiles of all ages. That’s what I call a real feel good moment.
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sputnik music
The same old Tom Petty in 2014, which is not a complaint.
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Goldenplec
A keeper!
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Newsday
Not only is "Hypnotic Eye" one of the best albums in the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers catalog, it shows that the 63-year-old Petty is ready for a Bob Dylan-like artistic resurgence.
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The Fire Note
Hypnotic Eye finds Petty & the Heartbreakers continuing to stretch, grow, and inspire.
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Hallels
In this day and age of recycled music and computerized augmentations it's a challenge to find a good ol' rock n' roll record that doesn't sound like a studio patchwork. In this regard, we need to cherish Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and their new record "Hypnotic Eye."
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The National
The sound is classic, but never dated.
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blue railroad
Exultant. A masterpiece. 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.
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Las Vegas Weekly
‘HYPNOTIC EYE’ LOSES SIGHT OF ITS TARGET.
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Louder Than War
Tom Petty’s Hypnotic Eye falls short but still hits plenty of highs.
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popdose
Hypnotic Eye might be the best Petty album in a decade, maybe more.
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USA Today
Passionate yet wise, accessible but not slick, Hypnotic Eye casts a lasting spell.
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huber
So how is Hypnotic Eye? Pretty decent, actually.
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Off the Tracks
Hypnotic Eye is as good as it could get for Petty about now.
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LOUDER
Veteran rocker returns with an album of "bite and belligerence"
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Nicholas Jennings
At 63, the Hall of Fame musician shows no signs of letting up.
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nzherald.com
So the patchy Hypnotic Eye isn't quite the return to form you might be reading about elsewhere. .
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Financial Times
The production is crisp, the pieces are punchy and the singer’s voice is still going strong at 63.
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glide magazine
Hypnotic Eye is vintage Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. In fact, it may rank as one of the two or three best albums the veteran rockers have ever done.
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The Mezzanine Music
If you’ve ever listened to another Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers record, you’ll have heard this one before.
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AMOEBA MUSIC
it’s clear Petty and the Heartbreakers haven’t lost an ounce of vigor over the years as Hypnotic Eye is among their most enticing later-era releases.
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Hi-Res Reviews
punches out some great rock & roll.
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DAILY BREEZE
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers find consistency, vitality on ‘Hypnotic Eye’.
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Oshkosh Northwestern
“Hypnotic Eye” is testament to the enduring power of blues-based rock ‘n’ roll.
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Blinded by Sound
'Hypnotic Eye' is more diverse than the straight-ahead rocker it was advertised to be.
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AMPLIFIED EDGE
Hypnotic Eye belongs right up with the best albums the band has released over the years. Rock ‘n’ roll needed this this record as well.
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relix
This album is pure rock and roll from a band that has only gotten better with age.
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Mike's Daily Jukebox
“Hypnotic Eye” is a true kick in the ass and a return to Petty’s first three albums that made us all fall in love with him.
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The Lantern
Tom Petty’s political rants, bluesy jams fuse in “Hypnotic Eye”
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Medium
For a group of senior citizens, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are still a tight, rock-solid band.
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Listen Heare Reviews
Tom Petty is fantastic at playing memorable rock and roll and on Hypnotic Eye it only gets better. There is nothing fancy about Eye, and Tom Petty obviously wants it that way.
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Elmore Magazine
Hypnotic Eye also affirms the fact they remain an unapologetic rock ‘n’ roll band, a mantra they’ve pursued since the start.
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The Star
If Petty’s a dinosaur-rocker, he’s not a fossil yet.
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Journey Home
In short this is a great album.
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Irish Times
The band are as they once were, a powerful combination of freshness and familiarity, oozing menace and spirit.
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