Stream Robert Plant’s New Album, ’Carry Fire’ : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/554005827/first-listen-robert-plant-carry-fire
It is a triumph of calibration, the work of a mature artist who understands how hard to swing and when to throttle back. It brings Plant’s heaven-bound sound to a human scale, an approachable place. Robert Plant is 69 years old, and clearly not inclined to do the circus trick of singing “Black Dog” to new generations of dazed and confused concertgoers. That said, he can still summon the fury of the Gods when necessary – see the wailing swirl of vocal ad-libs on “Bones of Saints.” But on most of Carry Fire, he’s concerned with other evocations: He seeks to cultivate a zone of deep reflection.