There's a
bit of smoke and mirrors going on here.
When
Aerosmith claimed that they were going full circle with 'Music from
another dimension' most fans thought that they were going to revisit
the seventies era with the Toxic Twins looking to get some dirt under
their fingernails.
I doubt
that they were expecting that full circle meant back to Permanent
Vacation and no further.
So yes,
they did jump back into the past, but just not as far as most of us
would have liked.
Opening
track LuvXXX could be Love in an Elevator part deux,
After
that rolls to its end the album trundles on with varying degrees of
success.
Over all
it's better than Get a Grip, and it would be fair to say that it
could knock at least eight lives off of Nine Lives, but Pump would
comfortably reach the finish line before this outing.
Tyler
still sounds fantastic. You've got to give credit where it's due and
Perry and co aint slouching in the musicianship department either.
Lets just
say that while the band aren't treading water, they aren't really
looking to go too far from the comfort of the shallow end.
It's not
a bad album, and better than the last few, but it aint what it was
cracked up to be so it's suffering from the heightened expectations.
They set
the bar high and just managed to slip under it.
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