Much of the album feels like glorified jam tracks thrown onto the record while this can give an album character and charm, here it just sounds incomplete or like you listening to the band playing around in the garage and, with few exceptions aside, never building upon these ideas and putting flesh on the bones. Where Just Push Play sounded disconnected from the band's roots, at least it committed to what it wanted to be here the band get cold feet and consequently burn down their roots as a means to keep themselves warm. As a result you have bluesy garage rock meets polished radio-friendly country ballads that sit together like oil and water, all the while keeping one foot in their roots and one in the zeitgeist of the time rather than pick, a lane the band decide it best to switch up constantly on their race to nowhere. Music From Another Dimension is a very schizophrenic affair, with the band taking the two extremes of their identity and throwing them together in one offering rather than finding a middle ground for them both to occupy.
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I listened to all the snippets and singles that I could get my hands on to get a taste of what was to come and stay tuned to the band through all the twists and turns that occurred during the making of this album like a kid of Christmas eve I sat up and waited until midnight when the blue bar on the download started and I could finally hear new Aerosmith….yeah, that served to be one of the last times I would do that. I cannot describe the anticipation I had for the release of Music From Another Dimension, the first all-new release from one of my favourite bands in eleven years and the first with all-new material since I had become a fan of theirs.
Years in the making, an hour in the breaking.