Robert Plant Thinks Not To Release Album Again Before Launching Saving Grace

JAKARTA - rock music icon and frontman Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, openly expressed his thoughts that his album recording career had ended.

This admission was shared while being a guest on the Rockonteurs podcast, where he also discussed about his latest album released last September, "Saving Grace".

Plant said it took up to six years in the process of working on the album, and he admitted the idea to release the album himself almost threw it away.

"Today, actually will never arrive, because at first it was not planned to exist," Plant said, quoted by UCR, Thursday, October 16.

"There are no more recordings, that's all," he said.

For Plant, what he wants is the freedom to just appear on stage whenever and wherever he wants.

"The point is, I never even thought it would start. I just don't want to make (the album anymore)," he added. "This is not the end, it's just that it's enough."

However, that perspective changed completely thanks to the experience of working with personnel at 'Saving Grace' in the recording session, which eventually gave birth to an album.

One of the reasons for the changes is because they are re-exploring, and most importantly, re-interpretating the music that has shaped its artistic core so far.

Plant enjoys every process of working on the song for the project, working in a relaxed rhythm, starting in 2019, and continuing to discuss various possibilities, even during and after the pandemic.

"You know, there are a myriad of songs that we know very well now as part of contemporary popular music canons that returned to 50 or 60 years ago," he said.

Plant gives an example: "If you think about 'House of the Rising Sun,' when The Animals come from Newcastle, enter Mickie's (Most) studio, and do it, they don't even listen to the playback. They go straight to Brighton to play, or something like that. The song, like, all those (classical) songs, they become something else," he concluded.