lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar

lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar

lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar

lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar

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Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date: 09/09/2014
Label: Nonesuch
UPC: 0075597954210
Rank: 61612

Tracks

  1. Little Maggie
  2. Rainbow
  3. Pocketful of Golden
  4. Embrace Another Fall
  5. Turn It Up
  6. A Stolen Kiss
  7. Somebody There
  8. Poor Howard
  9. House of Love
  10. Up on the Hollow Hill (Understanding Arthur)
  11. Arbaden (Maggie's Babby)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Robert Plant   Primary Artist,Vocals
Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters   Primary Artist
Juldeh Camara   Fiddle,Vocals,2-String Fiddle,Lute
Dave Smith   Drums
Nicola Powell   Vocals (Background)
Liam Tyson   Banjo,Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Justin Adams   Bendir,Djembe,Guitar,N'Goni,Tehardent,Vocals (Background)
Julie Murphy   Vocals,Vocals
John Baggott   Loops,Piano,Tabla,Drum Loop,Keyboards,Moog Bass,Percussion,Tabor Drum,Vocals (Background)
Billy Fuller   Bass,Omnichord,Double Bass,Guitar (Bass),Bass (Upright)
Skin Tyson   Banjo,Guitar,Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Juldeh Camara   Composer
Dave Smith   Arranger,Composer
York Tillyer   Band Photo
Brett Kilroe   Design,Art Direction
Liam Tyson   Arranger,Composer
Justin Adams   Arranger,Composer
Ed Miles   Photography
Dan Winters   Photography,Illustrations
John Baggott   Arranger,Composer
William Fuller   Composer
Tchad Blake   Mixing,Mixing Engineer
Traditional   Composer
Bob Ludwig   Mastering,Mastering Engineer
Jimmy Page   Composer
Michael Lee   Composer
Geoffrey Hanson   Design,Art Direction
Tim Holmes   Engineer,Recording
Billy Fuller   Arranger,Composer,Drum Programming
David Smith   Composer
Stephen Jones   Composer
Robert Plant   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Skin Tyson   Composer
Tim Oliver   Mixing,Engineer,Recording,Mixing Engineer
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