Mighty Rearranger |
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Released: April 25, 2005 Peak: 22 US, 4 UK, 51 AU Sales (in millions): 0.04 US, 0.06 UK Genre: rock |
Tracks: Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.
Total Running Time: 54:14 |
Rating:  3.600 out of 5.00 (average of 25 ratings)
Quotable: Plant’s “most musically satisfying and diverse recording since…Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti.” – Thom Jurek, All Music Guide Awards: (Click on award to learn more).
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About the Album: After the “tentative Dreamland” Q covers album in 2002, “Mighty Rearranger was Plant’s true comeback album.” Q The album consists of an expanded version of the Strange Sensation band which worked with him on the previous album. In addition, Phil Johnstone, who co-wrote with Plant on 1988’s Now and Zen returned as a co-producer. They “have painstakingly and energetically crafted an album that takes his full history into account.” AMG The result is Plant’s “most musically satisfying and diverse recording since…Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti.” AMG This is “an imaginative, confident record” Q which blends “world and Western music influences with mystical, oblique and somewhat cynical references to religion and destiny.” WK “It found room for booming Zeppelin-style drums on Shine It All Around,” Q which also features Justin Adams’ “canny emulation of Jimmy Page’s Les Paul toneography [which] fills Plant’s sung and moaned lines with ferocity.” AMG Freedom Fries, which incorporates “21st-century rockabilly,” Q offers “startling percussive syncopation and juxtaposition of roots rockabilly blues and hard rock – a la ‘Black Dog’ – that…shatters the sensual tension.” AMG The song is critical of George W. Bush’s presidency and the post-September 11 climate. WK Another Tribe is “a sociopolitical ballad that touches upon the textural string backdrops from Zep’s ‘Kashmir’ and is fueled by Moroccan bendir drums.” AMG There are also “African rhythms in Somebody’s Knocking.” Q On Tin Pan Alley, John Baggot’s “whispering keyboard lines under Plant’s nocturnal moan set a…slippery, sexy, undulating” AMG mood. “The beautiful balladry of All the King’s Horses offers solid proof of Plant’s ability to reference the English folk tradition with elegance and taste, and his continued acumen for fine lyric writing.” AMG There’s also “the sultry slow stroll of The Enchanter and the North African-flavored rocker Takamba.” AMG “The dramatic Let the Four Winds Blow touches everything from early rock & roll to droning Delta blues to biker soundtrack music.” AMG |
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First posted 9/27/2010; last updated 8/16/2021. |
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