Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersHypnotic Eye

Lean, muscular, full of fuzz, like a band plugging straight into the wall and turning up. "American Dream Plan B" stomps in snarling and gritty, a blue-collar everyman chasing a tarnished promise, while Mike Campbell's churning riff drives "Fault Lines" into the album's heaviest swampy groove. Petty's weathered drawl rides on top, wry and urgent, all the way to the brooding six-minute closer "Shadow People." The last thing he and the Heartbreakers ever recorded, and it bites. Drop the needle.