You can blindly buy, ...

... Said Uli, a good friend of mine. Said and done, we finally trusts his informants.
But first I was skeptical because Dreamland is essentially a CD of cover versions. "Now him think of anything else", a love come to mind, including Robert Plant has already exceeded the 50 mark, an age that has already been shown for other than the end of the creative stage. And like so nunmal with cover versions, they are not better than the original, as a rule.
Dreamland, however, is different. Dreamland consists of covers all at any songs that Plant in his youth - has enjoyed listening to and which obviously represent him still much - ie towards the end of the 60s. Sentimental, right? Robert Plant now covert these songs in a way that have the original only very little in common, they have become in Plants hands to completely new songs. In part because Plants youth is a long time ago already, and the songs were stylistically adjusted to the new millennium; partly because Plant - apart from some genuine popular songs such as Tim Roses "Morning Dew" or Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" - has rather less well-known pieces selected.
The first solo album in nine years, of course, one wonders whether he has vocally still up there d'or must pay tribute to his age. Here, the fears are in vain. He still has an excellent voice that masters the difficult passages easily. As a rock and roll hall of fame on the other hand seems to selecting the sideman: Since this issue also includes Portishead, Massive Attack, Sinead O 'Conner and The Cure. They play a number of more exotic instruments (panpipes) and mix this with unfamiliar Arabic and Asian sounds. Even kitschy String Orchestra deposits dive since in blues rock songs, here and there we find a pinch of Acid Jazz and Psychedelic. Risky, but it works.