Hypnotic Eye was the 13th and final studio album released by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Read more on Last.fm.
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Hypnotic Eye was the 13th and final studio album released by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Read more on Last.fm.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was a rock band formed in 1976 from Gainesville, Florida, USA and led by Tom Petty.
Petty was supported by his band, The Heartbreakers, for the majority of his career. He has occasionally released solo work, as was the case with his 2006 album Highway Companion on which he performed most of the backing instrumentation himself. However, members of The Heartbreakers have played on each of his solo albums and the band has always backed him when touring in support of those albums. Read more on Last.fm
After 2010’s blues workout, Mojo, Tom Petty and The Heart Breakers seemed destined to spend their twilight hour going back to their teenage roots, tapping the Robert Johnson vein for all it was worth. Their bruising, hook laden return to form, Hypnotic Eye, is a fiery reminder of the Damn The Torpedoes era Heartbreakers sound, albeit with a less polished, fuzzed out garage rock energy. For the long time fan, it’s a feast of southern fried swamp boogie, riff upon snarling riff, no intention of garnering modern rock radios limited ear shot. This is rock n’ roll, served with elegant disregard for the times it was conceived in.