ROBERT Plant follows a new musical path with each new album. His latest is no exception.
It’s miles away from the bluegrass partnership with Alison Krauss or the country rock of Band Of Joy.
This is an ambient mixture of African trance, Celtic loveliness and trip-hop percussion – probably due in part to his long-term collaboration with Massive Attack’s John Baggott.
It’s these collaborators that help shape his music – stalwarts such as Justin Adams and Liam ‘Skin’ Tyson, who have risen with Plant out of previous incarnations of his core band to combine with the talents of Juldeh Camara on the one-stringed African ritti and jazz drummer, Dave Smith.
These 11 tracks – nine of which are original compositions – take the listener on a sonic global journey, from the hypnotic Little Maggie, through the gentle Rainbow, the percussive Embrace Another Fall, which breaks out into a crescendo of guitars, to the stripped back, haunting A Stolen Kiss and the English folk of Poor Howard. An exciting listen.
Natalya Wilson
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