{"id":14865,"date":"2017-10-24T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2017-10-25T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:23:39","slug":"new-music-revue-robert-plants-carry-fire-wont-burn-your-ears-but-it-comes-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/10\/24\/new-music-revue-robert-plants-carry-fire-wont-burn-your-ears-but-it-comes-close\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Robert Plant\u2019s <em>Carry Fire<\/em> won\u2019t burn your ears, but it comes close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14866 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Robert-Plant.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Plant<br \/>\n<em>Carry Fire<br \/>\n<\/em>(Warner Music Canada)<br \/>\n2.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>Robert Plant\u2019s <em>Carry Fire <\/em>is a really good blend of light rock and sad, heartfelt ballads. At least \u201cMay Queen\u201d and \u201cNew World\u201d fit those bills. After that, the album is a genre jumble, alternating between tribal chants, world-music-influenced string and drum work, and Plant\u2019s glass-like voice, which still has a raspy quality lingering behind it; it must be said that his voice has stood against the aging process well, unlike some of the other vocal greats from his era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Way with Words\u201d gives depth to the album with its slow, patient, grieving composition. \u201cBones Of Saints\u201d picks <em>Carry Fire<\/em> up, and just when I thought the album was going to finish strong, the last three tracks are a weird blend of almost-techno-rock, half-assed metal, and a sombre, quiet sound.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Plant couldn\u2019t decide what he was feeling when he was writing this album, but there are some really creative artistic moments hidden among the brambles here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Plant Carry Fire (Warner Music Canada) 2.5\/5 Robert Plant\u2019s Carry Fire is a really good blend of light rock and sad, heartfelt ballads. At least \u201cMay Queen\u201d and \u201cNew World\u201d fit those bills. After that, the album is a genre jumble, alternating between tribal chants, world-music-influenced string and drum work, and Plant\u2019s glass-like voice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14867,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}