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'What Could Have been Love' is the first classic ballad, and it's a sure fire hit thanks to a wonderfully stirring chorus that could easily propel the album back into the spotlight if released as a single or attached to the right film. They falter with the mandolin flavoured 'Tell Me', which feels like a sub par version of MTV mega hit 'Crazy', but momentum's swiftly restored on 'Out Go The Lights', combining a funky lick with more sassy female backing singers, stabbing horns and Tyler on stunning form, rolling out super cool lyrics with the kind of cocksure conviction that rolls back the years. At this point it's as if the proposed seventies resurrection is happening, until 'Beautiful' recalls Aerosmith's anthemic 80's output, conjoining Tyler's manically rhythmic wordplay with spiky dissonant guitars during the frenzied verses, before morphing into a soaring chorus that's pure arena ready ear candy. Whilst the latter has a ramshackle Rolling Stones vibe featuring sumptuous female backing singers and dripping with loose limbed nonchalant cool. The former pulses and pounds with a monolithic monster riff as four of the most talented players in rock and roll lock in to the kind of telepathic groove that's characterised their entire career. Problems aside there are plentiful positives, beginning with the album's opening powerhouse combo of 'Luv XXX' and 'Oh Yeah'. Three very different styles which don't flow together as fluidly as one might like. So what they've concocted is an amalgamation of the swaggering seventies blues based rock & roll with the stadium devouring anthems of the 80's and an onslaught of lighter waving ballads a la the Armageddon soundtrack. However, the guys aren't trying to reinvent the wheel here, the musical direction just lacks cohesion, trying to be all things to all Aerosmith fans without alienating anyone.
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It takes many listens to assimilate, and at a time when people increasingly demand instant gratification that won't be appreciated. The fact that 'Music From Another Dimension!' is initially an overwhelming 70 minute, fifteen song marathon that bombards listeners with an inconsistent mixture of musical styles also explains it's frosty reception.
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The backlash was therefore inevitable as the full blooded return to those early era masterpieces hasn't materialised, with the band (mainly Tyler) obviously afraid that ditching their more commercial elements would harm sales figures. But expectations were really heightened when they claimed the new record – the 15th of their illustrious career – would be a return to the sound of their seventies classics, with the man who produced them once again in the hot seat Mr Jack Douglas.
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And that focus increased exponentially when Tyler pimped himself out to American Idol. Any legendary group's first original material in over ten years is sure to come under intense scrutiny, especially when preceded by inter band squabbling and embarrassing public drug relapses. Now in their 5th decade together singer Steven Tyler, along with guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer haven't helped themselves in the run up to this release.
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Whilst far from perfect, at it's best this is Aerosmith on scintillating form, sweeping away the memory of 2001's characterless 'Just Push Play' with an album that's best described as a glorious mess. Although critics have rightly focussed on the album being too long, with too many ballads and too many contrasting styles, it's really not that black and white. Thing is, despite numerous flaws 'Music From Another Dimension!' is actually pretty damned good. With mixed reviews and abysmal first week sales in the US you'd think they'd served up the biggest turkey this side of Noel. To say the response to the Bostonian bad boys first new studio album in over a decade has been lukewarm is like saying the good ol' gun lovin' people of Texas are a tad disappointed by Barack Obama's re-election.