Robert Plant: Dreamland
Barney Hoskyns, bbc.co.uk, 2010
ROBERT PLANT entered the new millennium with an album that looked defiantly backward – not to Led Zeppelin, mind you, but to a round-up of his personal musical heroes. The grunge-era Manic Nirvana (1990) and Fate of Nations (1993) had already junked the overegged synth-rock of Plant's '80s albums – while 1995's Unledded reunion with Jimmy Page breathed new life into the Zeppelin catalogue – but Dreamland definitively set Sir Percival on the Americana-rooted course he has steered ever since.
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