Tom Petty is the master of simply-written songs. He can do more with three chords than most songwriters can with 20, as demonstrated on his masterpiece, "Wildflowers". On "Echo", most of the songs aren't very hooky. Petty just seems muddled in his songwriting. The band went for more of a garage type feel for this album and succeeded sonically, but the songs shouldn't suffer. While not every song on here is shoddy, I don't like enough of them to recommend the album.