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Robet Plant: Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar

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Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2014.09.08
Time:
 49:59
Category: Folk Rock
Producer(s): Robert Plant
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.robertplant.com
Appears with: Led Zeppelin
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Little Maggie (Trad. arr. Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 5:06
[2] Rainbow (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson) - 4:18
[3] Pocketful of Golden (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 4:12
[4] Embrace Another Fall (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 5:52
[5] Turn It Up (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 4:06
[6] A Stolen Kiss (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson) - 5:15
[7] Somebody There (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 4:32
[8] Poor Howard (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 4:13
[9] House of Love (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 5:07
[10] Up on the Hollow Hill [Understanding Arthur] (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson) - 4:35
[11] Arbaden [Maggie's Babby] followup to [little maggie] (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson) - 2:44

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Robert Plant - Vocals, Producer

The Sensational Space Shifters (as Backing Band):
Justin Adams - Bendirs, Djembe, Guitars, Tehardant, Background Vocals
Liam "Skin" Tyson - Banjo, Guitar, Background Vocals
John Baggott - Keyboards, Loops, Moog Bass, Piano, Tabal, Background Vocals
Juldeh Camara - Kologo, Ritti, Fulani Vocals
Billy Fuller - Bass, Drum Programming, Omnichord, Upright Bass
Dave Smith - Drum Set

Julie Murphy - Vocals on [4]
Nicola Powell - Background Vocals on [8]

Tim Oliver - Recording, Mixing
Tim Holmes - Recording
Tchad Blake - Mixing
Bob Ludwig - Mastering
Brett Kilroe - Art Direction
Geoffrey Hanson - Art Direction

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Recorded at the Helium Studios, Wiltshire; Real World Studios, nr. Bath; Contino Rooms, London.



We'd like a Zep reunion as much as anyone, but it's easy to understand Robert Plant's resistance. Reinventing himself on his 2007 Alison Krauss collab, Raising Sand, and on projects with ex-girlfriend Patty Griffin, the singer made some of his best work ever. His latest returns to the world-music fusion of 2005's Mighty ReArranger with his Strange Sensation band (now reconfigured as the Sensational Space Shifters). It lacks the focused grace of his country experiments, but this much is true: It's Plant's hardest-rocking set in a decade. And it makes you wonder.

"Little Maggie," the album keystone, flips an Appalachian folk song (and bluegrass standard) with African space-funk grooves and hoedown-worthy griot ritti fiddle from Gambian bandmate Juldeh Camara. Heavier tracks are less convincing. "Embrace Another Fall," the sort of hybrid Peter Gabriel mastered, veers between boutique-hotel-lobby mixtape fodder and half-baked "Kashmir" gestures. "Pocketful of Golden" is a Houses of the Holy-style Celtic folk rocker that could use some Jimmy Page Les Paul shredding. Plant's Americana detour has made him a better, more nuanced singer. Here, coming home to something like progressive rock, it's hard not to think of his other band. Keep hope alive.

Will Hermes - September 9, 2014
RollingStone.com



Returning to his native England after an extended sojourn in America, Robert Plant heavily reconnects with his homeland's mysticism on 2014's lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar. Despite the shift in geography, the singer is picking up a thread he left hanging with 2010's Band of Joy. On that album, Plant blurred boundaries between several musical styles, playing covers with a group assembled by producer Buddy Miller, but here he shifts that omnivorous aesthetic to a collection of originals performed with his ever-changing band the Sensational Space Shifters. Certain flourishes sound familiar - he remains equally enamored of English and Moroccan folk while retaining an enduring obsession with American blues and psychedelia - but the feel is different, not as robust as Band of Joy or warmly joyous as Raising Sand. The Ceaseless Roar may not get loud - usually, when it rocks it sounds like a kissing cousin to a folk rave-up; sometimes, as on "Somebody There," it's chiming, crystalline, and bright like the Byrds - but it is intensely meditative, finding sustenance within mystery. Plant is reflecting on where he's been - singing "And if the sun refuses to shine" on "Pocketful of Golden," he tips a hat to his Zeppelin past; elsewhere he speaks of getting lost in America - yet gingerly avoiding questions of mortality and resisting the allure of easy sentimentality. It's possible to hear the weight of his years on lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar - it is, in the best sense, mature music, dense in its rhythms and allusions, subtle in its melodies - but he never feels weary, nor does he traffic in false nostalgia. He's building upon the past, both his own and the larger traditions of his homeland, both spiritual and actual, and that gives lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar a bewitching depth. It's an album to get lost in.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar is English rock singer Robert Plant's tenth solo album and the first studio one with his backing band The Sensational Space Shifters, although the name of the band is not mentioned in the front cover. It was released on 8 September 2014 on Nonesuch/Warner Bros. Records. Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar was met with critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 23 reviews. The album was named one of the 50 best albums of 2014 by NPR Music.

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