Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Hypnotic Eye – album stream

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/22/tom-petty-hypnotic-eye-album-stream

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Next week sees the release of the 13th album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Hypnotic Eye sees the band return to a crunchier, rockier sound after the meandering blues of their last record, Mojo, which met with mixed reviews (and whose song Don’t Pull Me Over was a fixture on Worst Song of 2010 lists).

This time out, Petty has said one of the album’s recurring themes is morality: “It’s about what’s missing — why is the ‘human’ missing from humanity? I think the level of caring about other people is disappearing.” He’s also spoken about the dangers of wealth: “That’s a huge problem in the world right now — you can see these wealthy people who have made so much money that making more will not change an hour of their lives or their children’s — yet they’re consumed with the idea of making more. Once they do that long enough, that doesn’t turn them on any more. They want power, and a great deal of money buys power. Very few people know how to handle power and once they just become completely immoral, they’re dangerous people. This attitude is what, to me, wipes out the middle class.”

Have a listen and let us know what you think.