Yet another rock band from Australia, but this time, Wolfmother might just be the band to scale the heights like AC/DC, rather than promise much and deliver little like Jet or Kiwi outfit The Datsuns.
"Wahhhh!" yelps Andrew Stockdale by way of an introduction to this chunk of perfect 1970s rock. Cue the rumbling drums, blues riffs put through the wringer marked 'Sabbath' and some vocals that must be from a Led Zeppelin outtake. Make no mistake: this may well sound like it was recorded in an era when your mum was having crafty fags behind the bike shed fantasising about Jimmy Page, but Dimension still manages to sound fresh and vital.
Everything that was exciting about 70s rock can be found in Dimension's four minute unbridled sprint of rock spirit.: there's the Purple Haze that is in the sky (according to Stockdale's best Ozzy impression); the guitars that suggest that they might well be pushing the valves in the amps to the limit; and an attitude that pours from the speakers like the densest of hash smoke. Wolfmother might well have come from another dimension to deliver something so retro in 2006, but for all the revisionism, this is vital, invigorating stuff.
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