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Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar

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Length
  
49:30

Release date
  
8 September 2014

Producer
  
Robert Plant

Artist
  
Robert Plant

Genre
  
Classic rock

Label
  
Nonesuch Records Inc.

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Released
  
8 September 2014 (2014-09-08)

Recorded
  
Helium Studios, Wiltshire; Real World Studios, nr Bath; Contino Rooms, London

Similar
  
Robert Plant albums, Blues rock albums

Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar (rendered as lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar on the album cover) is the tenth solo album by English rock singer Robert Plant. It was released on 8 September 2014 on Nonesuch/Warner Bros. Records. It was also Plant's first studio album with his backing band the Sensational Space Shifters, although the name of the band is not credited on the front cover.

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Critical reception

Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar was received favourably by the majority of music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from a selection of critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 23 reviews. The album was named one of the 50 best albums of 2014 by NPR Music.

^‡ – derived from the Lead Belly song "Po' Howard" (Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax).

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Personnel

Musicians
  • Robert Plant – vocals, production
  • The Sensational Space Shifters (as backing band):
  • Justin Adams – bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals
  • Liam "Skin" Tyson – banjo, guitar, background vocals.
  • John Baggott – keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabla, background vocals
  • Juldeh Camara – kologo, ritti, Fulani vocals
  • Billy Fuller – bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass
  • Dave Smith – drum set
  • Julie Murphy – vocals on "Embrace Another Fall"
  • Nicola Powell – background vocals on "Poor Howard"
    • Production
  • Tim Oliver – recording, mixing
  • Tim Holmes – recording
  • Tchad Blake – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Brett Kilroe and Geoffrey Hanson – art direction

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    Songs

    1Little Maggie5:05
    2Rainbow4:16
    3Pocketful of Golden4:12

    References

    Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar Wikipedia
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