It's no secured that like most bands their age, they'll do anything to make a quick buck, or furthermore to put their kids through college, and what better way to do that than show how Eco-friendly you are by recycling the same material over and over. Old fans of the band shouldn't be too worried, though, because the band haven't changed- since the eighties, they've been rather hit and miss, and most of their stuff has sounded exactly the same. Yet again, in a way you should be thankful, because it's an indication of the (lack of) quality of the album. It's never a good sign when halfway through the first track on an album, you find yourself asking "just how old is this band again?". But this can be forgiven when it’s great to see a band of this calibre back at the top of their game after so long in the media spotlight for other distractions.Review Summary: Is from another dimension, alright. The only drawback is the pop-art comic book cover sleeve which comes across as quite cheap, and at an hour and eight minutes the record is perhaps a little overlong. Indeed, Perry’s guitar solos may be the best he has written, and whether you like Tyler or not, he still has the rasping wail of a banshee which few others could claim to own. Granted Steven Tyler’s face resembles a cave in a mountainside, and even guitarist Joe Perry is starting to age beneath his matted porch of hair (which is also starting to bear the marks of age), but there is no denying they both rock their socks off on this new record. What is truly astonishing about this album is just how easily the band manage to roll back the years after so long since their last self-written album. Acoustic guitars are abound on Tell Me with soulful folksiness and What Could Have Been Love is the album’s lighter in the air moment which recalls just how developed the Aerosmith songwriting gene has become since the band’s ‘90s ‘ballad abuse’ years.
Oh Yeah and Beautiful are two of the album’s standout tracks with those hook-laden choruses rife throughout both tunes. What this album does churn out by the bucket-load are riffs harder than a rock, grooves which walked right out of their ‘70s heyday, flares and all, and the kind of chorus hooks which the band pioneered all those years ago. But then Aerosmith have never been a band to indulge in such introspective nonsense. Music From Another Dimension isn’t quite as epic as the title would have you believe, but make no mistake this record rocks! It’s exactly what you would expect from Aerosmith 2012 – channeling all the spirit of their twenty-year old selves from the ‘70s, but with the sparkle and polish of today’s production values.įor those looking for deep lyrics and witticisms, this album will come up short. Frankly it’s a miracle that this album has been made at all.
Instead they’ve filled their time with arguments, stints in American Idol, arguments, rumours of vocalist Steven Tyler joining Led Zeppelin, arguments, solo projects, arguments, autobiographies, arguments, rehab and more arguments. A lacklustre covers album and a couple of teasing new tracks on their 2006 best of Devil’s Got A New Disguise is about as far as the hard rocking five-piece got with their music.
Eleven years since their last studio album of self-penned material, the rock ‘n’ roll soap opera that is Aerosmith is back…and it sounds like they’ve never been away.Ī lot has happened in those eleven years, but sadly very little of that has been music.
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