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Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Primary Artist
Led Zeppelin
Album Title
Led Zeppelin
Release Date
January 12, 1969 
Time
44:17 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Led Zeppelin had a fully formed, distinctive sound from the outset, as their eponymous debut illustrates. Taking the heavy, distorted electric blues of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, and Cream to an extreme, Zeppelin created a majestic, powerful brand of guitar rock constructed around simple, memorable riffs and lumbering rhythms. But the key to the group's attack was subtlety: it wasn't just an onslaught of guitar noise, it was shaded and textured, filled with alternating dynamics and tempos. Read More