Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar (stylized as lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar) is the tenth solo album by English rock singer Robert Plant. It was released on 8 September 2014 on Nonesuch/Warner Bros. Records.[2][3] It was also Plant's first studio album with his backing band the Sensational Space Shifters, although the band is not credited on the front cover.
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| Released | 8 September 2014 (2014-09-08) | |||
| Recorded | Helium Studios, Wiltshire Real World Studios, nr Bath Contino Rooms, London | |||
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| Length | 50:00[1] | |||
| Label | Nonesuch/Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Robert Plant | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 81/100[4] |
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| Source | Rating |
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| Mojo | |
| Paste | 9.3/10[8] |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.0/10[9] |
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| Rolling Stone | |
| Uncut | 9/10[13] |
Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar received acclaim by the majority of music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from a selection of critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 23 reviews. The album was named one of the 50 best albums of 2014 by NPR Music.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Little Maggie" | Traditional, arranged by Robert Plant, Justin Adams, John Baggott, Billy Fuller, Dave Smith, Liam "Skin" Tyson | 5:06 |
| 2. | "Rainbow" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Fuller, Tyson | 4:18 |
| 3. | "Pocketful of Golden" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Juldeh Camara, Fuller, Smith, Tyson | 4:12 |
| 4. | "Embrace Another Fall" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Camara, Fuller, Smith, Tyson | 5:52 |
| 5. | "Turn It Up" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Fuller, Smith, Tyson | 4:06 |
| 6. | "A Stolen Kiss" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Fuller, Tyson | 5:15 |
| 7. | "Somebody There" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Fuller, Smith, Tyson | 4:32 |
| 8. | "Poor Howard" (‡) | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Camara, Fuller, Smith, Tyson | 4:13 |
| 9. | "House of Love" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Fuller, Smith, Tyson | 5:07 |
| 10. | "Up on the Hollow Hill (Understanding Arthur)" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Fuller, Tyson | 4:35 |
| 11. | "Arbaden (Maggie's Babby)" | Plant, Adams, Baggott, Camara, Fuller, Smith, Tyson | 2:44 |
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