Tom Petty To Release New Album This Summer

[That 70s Guy]

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have almost completed work on a new album. Although there is no set release date, the band plan to have the 11-track ‘Hypnotic Eye’ out at some point this summer.

After the bluesy sprawl of 2010′s ‘Mojo,’ the new album finds Petty returning to their roots in ’60s garage rock. “I knew I wanted to do a rock n’ roll record,” Petty told Rolling Stone. “We hadn’t made a straight hard-rockin’ record, from beginning to end, in a long time.

This was a conscious decision. Sessions for ‘Hypnotic Eye’ began in August 2011, and a few of the new songs were rejected because they sounded too similary to the ‘Mojo’ material. Rolling Stone describes the tracks as having either “power-treble and clipped-fuzz guitars, “swamp-snake organ lines” or a “bar-band charge.” As with ‘Mojo’ and 2009′s ‘The Live Anthology’ box set, ‘Hypnotic eye will be produced by Petty, his longtime collaborator Mike Campbell and Ryan Ulyate.

“I always say this, but I’m tremendously excited for this one,” Petty said last summer. “It’s morphed into songs we would’ve written around ‘Wildflowers’ or ‘Damn the Torpedoes,’ but much more distorted.”

Petty also confirmed that plans are underway to give his 1994 solo album ‘Wildflowers’ the Deluxe Edition treatment. They will add ten songs to the record, which he hopes will be available by Christmas. A live album culled from last year’s rarity-heavy summer tour is also reportedly in the works.


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[The Wanderer]

I can't wait! I'll be planning to buy it on vinyl and if not then on CD.

 

[AboutAGirl]

I could freakin' break down and cry. A double disc edition of Wildflowers and a live album from the last tour? I'm sooo glad they're going to release that live album. 'Cause there were SO many great rarities on that tour!! I hope they include Tweeter and the Monkey Man.

I have a difficult time imagining what songs they'll add to Wildflowers though... most of 1996's She's The One consisted of Wildflowers-era outtakes already. Not only that, but other material from that era ended up on the Playback boxset as well! So I'm guessing these ten new songs will mostly be alternate versions of tracks we already have -- unless Petty recorded upwards of three whole albums in 1994! Maybe we'll finally get Girl on LSD though.

As for the new album... I was wondering why it was taking so long. Now I know why, they scrapped the Mojo-style material and went in a new direction. Petty's latest streak is as good as anything he's done and this garage style sounds amazing, so I have little doubt this'll be a new favorite for me.

 

[That 70s Guy]

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have revealed their next album is to be called Hypnotic Eye – and it’s a return to the classic sound of their earliest work.

The frontman says they only realised what they’d achieved after guitarist Mike Campbell observed: “You sing like you did on the first two albums.”

Petty tells Rolling Stone: “I knew I wanted to do a rock’n'roll record. We hadn’t made a straight hard rocking record, from beginning to end, in a long time.”

It’s taken nearly three years to get there, but he explains: “You must get the songs. It takes time to write 10 or 11 really good songs.” And it wasn’t plain sailing – when he first played his track American Dream Plan B with his bandmates, the response was complete silence.

“I said, ‘Listen, I think we have something here, but we’re going to have to get excited about it.’” In the end that’s what happened; but Petty respects his colleagues’ opinions, and if they hadn’t loved it, the track would have been dumped.

He says: “If they’re not lighting up, something’s wrong. It would be very hard to make this record without a band that’s been together this long, with those kinds of instincts. I’m relieved to have that.

“They’re still the guys I want to play with, and the guys who understand my songs the best.”

Hypnotic Eye is planned for a summer launch via Reprieve Records, with other track titles including Faultlines, Red River, Burn Out Town and Shadow People.