Listen to Robert Plant’s “Rainbow”

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June 26, 2014 1:29 pm

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Robert Plant has released “Rainbow,” the first offering from his upcoming album lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar. The percussive new track comes with the promise of a to-be-announced tour in the fall and a first taste of Plant’s new band, The Sensational Space Shifters.

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“It’s really a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep,” Plant says. “The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood.”

Listen to “Rainbow” at NPR Music and watch a trailer for lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, out September 9 on Nonsuch. Preorders of the album include a limited-edition print and instant download of “Rainbow.”

lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar Track List:

1. Little Maggie
2. Rainbow
3. Pocketful of Golden
4. Embrace Another Fall
5. Turn It Up
6. A Stolen Kiss
7. Somebody There
8. Poor Howard
9. House of Love
10. Up on the Hollow Hill (Understanding Arthur)
11. Arbaden (Maggie’s Babby)