Long After Dark in Bloomington, MN

Riding high on the back-to-back Top Five platinum hits
Damn the Torpedoes
and
Hard Promises
,
Tom Petty
quickly returned to the studio to record
the Heartbreakers
' fifth album,
Long After Dark
. Truth be told, there was about as long a gap between
Dark
Promises
as there was between
Torpedoes
. There are a few new wave flourishes here and there, but the band hasn't really changed its style at all -- it's still
Stonesy
Byrds
-ian heartland rock. As their first four albums illustrated, that isn't a problem in itself, since they've found numerous variations within their signature sound. With its swirling, minor key guitars, "You Got Lucky" is a classic and "Change of Heart" comes close to matching the peaks of
. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine