Label: Es Paranza Records (Germany), WX 149 790 863-1
Style: Hard Rock, Rock
Country: West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England (20 August 1948)
Time: 41:45
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 294 Mb
Charts: UK #10, AUS #11, CAN #4, GER #48, NLD #31, NOR #12, NZ #7, SWE #18, US #6. UK: Gold; US: 3x Platinum.
This
record is some kind of stylistic event: a seamless pop fusion of hard
guitar rock, gorgeous computerization and sharp, startling songcraft.
Now and Zen, Robert Plant‘s fourth solo album, is so rich in conceptual
invention that you barely notice that Plant sings better on it - with
more tone, control and rhythmic acuity - than he has in the seven years
since Led Zeppelin imploded. Better, in some ways, than ever.
The
punning title is apt. The nine tracks on Now and Zen don’t simply sound
contemporary; they point to new ways to transmute roots-rock verities of
swing and harmony amid the technological conventions of late-Eighties
pop. At the same time the songs show Plant humanizing and enlivening the
cool synthetic sound of such Euro-synth units as Kraftwerk and D.A.F.
In addition, there is a certain pop-Zen aspect to such songs as "The Way
I Feel," in which Plant sings, "The future rides beside me/Tomorrow in
his hand/The stranger turns to greet me/Take me by the hand" - one of
the wittier lyrical loops since Lou Reed walked hand in hand with
himself through the vinyl grooves of Loaded.
(Full version: rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/now-and-zen-250871/)
01. A1 Heaven Knows (04:05)
02. A2 Dance On My Own (04:23)
03. A3 Tall Cool One (04:35)
04. A4 The Way I Feel (05:34)
05. B1 Helen of Troy (05:03)
06. B2 Billy's Revenge (03:32)
07. B3 Ship of Fools (04:54)
08. B4 Why (04:09)
09. B5 White, Clean and Neat (05:25)
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