This couldn't be the aforementioned goldenhaired auto squeezer who fronted Led Zeppelin, could it? The fingerprints analyze him as that Robert Plant, bygone bedrock god and latter-day abandoned artisan and Honeydripper. So what is this strange-sounding new-music album, Shaken 'n' Stirred, all about? For starters, it sounds like he's been alert to the endure brace of annal by the Police and Talking Heads, and some of the new being advancing over from Africa. There's aswell a nod to the Middle Eastern influences that wafted through Zeppelin numbers like "Kashmir."
On Shaken 'n' Stirred, Plant and bandage are dabbling with the alien banned of anatomy in an interestingly burst way. These nine numbers abandon a lot of of the accepted rules that administer pop-song architecture yet hew to an busy argumentation all their own. Themes convulse in and out of the proceedings, the musicians ample the spaces with blasts of tonal coloration, and the songs are wont to blunder advanced and astern and again about-face on a dime for a dart to the finish.
Most encouragingly, Plant himself appears none too affected about it all. There are overlays of Fifties vocalise on "Doo Doo a Do Do," with its shubops and sha-la-las nested calmly a part of the whirring synthesizers and cross-talking rhythms. The message? "Mmm, it's a new affectionate of mambo," sings Plant. "Easily Lead" mates the propulsiveness of the Police's "Synchronicity" with Peter Gabriel's odd angled for complete collage, and Plant briefly quotes a brace of Led Zep abstract just for laughs. Another able clue is "Kallalou Kallalou," in which guitarist Robbie Blunt accomplish out a bit in the mix to go one-on-one with Plant in a agitated raveup as arced and apprenticed as the Zeppelin babble archetypal "The Crunge."
Of course, Led Zeppelin comparisons are hardly the point. Unlike assertive added acts, Plant has refrained from cyberbanking on the past. Instead, he's cyberbanking on the present, reinventing himself as a chameleon with a aciculate ear for new sound.
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