Album Review: Saving Grace by Robert Plant

A testament to the joy of making music, this is a true ensemble piece where every voice and every instrument serves the songs Saving Grace, Robert Plant‘s 12th solo album, has had rather a long gestation period. Plant’s new backing band, also called Saving Grace, actually formed before the covid lockdown and spent a few years playing a selection of folk, rock, blues and Americana covers in tiny venues around Britain. As you’d expect from a group of musicians who’ve known each other for a number of years, Saving Grace sounds impossibly well crafted from the off.

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After six years in the making, Robert Plant's 'Saving Grace' emerges as a spellbinding and mellifluous fusion of folk, country and blues. Recorded between 2019 and 2025 in the Cotswolds and along the Welsh Borders, it marks Plant's 12th solo album (not including his Grammy-winning collaborations with Alison Krauss) and also serves as the self-titled debut from the band he's been touring with in recent years. It stands as another stellar example of Robert's musical curiosity, which has crafted this soulful tapestry of blues, alt-country and folk reimaginings.

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Robert Plant's lockdown project finally makes it to vinyl (other formats are available) in the same year as his inescapable past hit the big screen as Becoming Led Zeppelin. It's the same man, the same voice, albeit the passing decades have weathered both. But there's little trace of the strutting rock god here as, together with a handful of musicians from his native Black Country, he relaxes into ten tasteful and, mostly, time-honoured songs for our listening pleasure.

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