Led Zeppelin III [Atlantic, 1970]If the great blues guitarists can make their instruments cry out like human voices, it's only fitting that Robert Plant should make his voice galvanize like an electric guitar. I've always approved theoretically of the formula that pits the untiring freak intensity of that voice against Jimmy Page's repeated low-register fuzz riffs, and here they really whip it into shape. Plant is overpowering even when Page goes to his acoustic, as he does to great effect on several surprisingly folky (not to mention folk bluesy) cuts. No drum solos, either. Heavy. B+
>>131703920Led Zeppelin sucks. Please do not ever listen to them. Thank you.
>>131704376what should we listen to instead?
>>131704512AnCo, Death Grips, Radiohead, NHM. The list goes on.
The Powers That B [Third Worlds/Harvest, 2015]Having outlived their modishness, the biracial art-rap-cum-ragecore trio release a double album that, as I once requested, sidesteps their sex-hating/fearing misogyny. This they achieve not by putting it aside altogether but by sticking it on one disc, based musically on "Björk's vocals (as found object)" har har, epitomized thematically by "Have a Sad Come BB" (pronounced "baby"), and entitled for confusion's sake Niggas on the Moon. Its longer opposite number, entitled for confusion's sake Jenny Death, is epitomized thematically by a breakneck Humvee of an opener called "Break Mirrors With My Face in the United States." They couldn't have anticipated Freddie Gray except in the sense that there'll always be another, the rare ragecore truism with undeniable truth value. But in this time of racist callousness, I find their all-purpose hostility and alienation apt and, sometimes, perversely satisfying--on "Pss Pss," "Centuries of Dawn," "Beyond Alive." B+
>>131704564>pretending to be a /mu/core autist while shitting on Zeppelinkek are you a Linkin Park pleb or what?
>>131703920Isn’t this guy a literal cuck? Like his wife fucks other guys
>>131703920based Christgau
>>131704512Captain Beyond
