Led Zeppelin IV

Davis, who is a regular contributor to Wired, spins an irresistible narrative about his rediscovery of the classic album while driving through England, tying the songs in with pagan myth and feminine representation. Far from being pretentious, Davis meditation is charming and readable.Philadelphia Weekly. The most engaging aspect of this irresistibly readable book is the sheer delight Davis so obviously takes in over reading this stuff. It is as if he went through some hermeneutic wormhole and emerged in a parallel universe where Zepa's legendary fourth album is infinitely dense with significancea"a textual black hole that sucks all meaning into its dark maw..shovelware, Mark Dery the literary equivalent of sparking the owl, crafting a sigil, cranking up a backmasked copy of Stairway to Heaven, and settling in for a deep chat with the collective satanic majesties of visionary rock.Village Voice, Richard Gehr "The most ingenious aspect of this book, even if you're not literate in mysticism and the occult, is that Davis intentionally and deliberately overanalyzes the entire album That's the point. It's almost like reaching over to your bookshelf, pulling out the entire Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown series and applying them to "Four Sticks" you can tell that Davis had an absolute blast with this whole project." -- Metro NY, August 2005 (Metro NY