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. 5 on the Billboard 200, I do seem to recall reading press accounts at the time, with Joe Perry saying this may be the band’s last album possibly a sign of frustration over the long process it. 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. In November 2012, Aerosmith released their 15th and most recent studio album to date, Music from Another Dimension While it climbed to No. Oh Yeah and Beautiful are two of the album’s standout tracks with those hook-laden choruses rife throughout both tunes. Buy Aerosmith - Music from Another Dimension in Quezon City,Philippines. 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. Aerosmith’s Music from Another Dimension, however, is best left where it came from. 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. Aerosmith’s Music from Another Dimension, however, is best left where it came from.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. In fact, if you thought you might like this, you’d do much better with the terrific new Kiss CD, Monster. Age is no excuse: other wrinkly rockers are doing fine. That there’s a bevy of hired hands on every song is a sure sign their hearts weren’t in this.
Tyler is a successful professional celeb and Perry’s solo stuff, at its most bluesy, can be pretty good.
I misread track eight, “Street Jesus” as Sweet Jesus, which summed up how I felt. “Legendary Child” plunders “Walk This Way”. Of the two standout tracks one is the tasteful ballad “Tell Me", but “Out Go the Lights” is virtually “Rag Doll”. That may be no great crime, but some of the songs here are practically covers of old hits. They also shun all influences other than their own. Track after track sounds like a band who were probably only in the same room as long as it took to record a song. The Plan 9 from Outer Space-inspired sleeve art for Aerosmith’s 15th studio effort Music from Another Dimension is a great pictorial representation of two commonly held beliefs about the band. But if only the album had some to offer any of its own. Beautiful and Out Go the Lights represent the classic Aerosmith niche of hard rock lyrics delivered with the rasp and attitude of Steven Tyler entwined with blues chords. It gets off to a bad start with a silly voiceover that tells you to surrender your emotion. Aerosmith returned to their roots of bluesy rock in Music from Another Dimension that transports back to ‘70’s rock ‘n roll.