Albums of the Week

ROCK/ROOTS

Robert Plant: Carry Fire (Nonesuch)

During his time with Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant typified the excesses of prime-era rock music and the sexuality of long-haired, tight-jeaned male lead singers. In recent years – his erstwhile upstanding Hammer of the Gods image well and truly in the past – he has carried his enduring love of Celtic, Indian and African music across a sequence of records that have rarely slipped below the ...