Age and experience has its benefits. On the inspirations for this impressive album of songs and sounds, Robert Plant says that "now I have a whole index, an absolute rainbow, of influences". The music tips its hat in so many directions that chasing them down is a fool's errand. But this wonderfully adept band keeps everything in shape despite the shifting genres. Plant's recent Americana explorations are melded into African rhythms with elements of the Bristol Sound. Classic rock rubs riffs with the striking sound of the one-stringed Gambian ritti. There are some reference to the woolly mystical, but Plant is mainly addressing questions of personal identity and the impermanence of love. Yet this is, as Plant says, a joyous sound, a celebration of space shifting. robertplant.com

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