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“There are some things in the air,” Led Zeppelin‘s Robert Plant shares with Classic Rock Magazine in a new interview, “possibly in Nashville.”

“I’m supposed to be going there in two weeks’ time,” he then continues. “There’s nothing going on at all at the moment, but there will be.”

“Between The Sensational Space Shifters‘ guitarists Justin Adams and Liam ‘Skin’ Tyson and everybody, we’ve got about 40 different instrumental ideas already,” he confides.

While Plant’s ideas as to the album’s musical content may not yet be fully formed, Robert Plant already has a recording engineer and studio in mind.

“We work with a guy called Tim Oliver,” he continues, “who’s the studio manager down at Real World, Peter Gabriel‘s place, and we can mess about in there. I can spend an afternoon with Tim and really shift styles and stems of music in preparation to shape them as songs.”

“We’ve recorded the last two records with Tim and it’s a great way of doing things,” he enthuses, referring to 2017’s Carry Fire and 2012’s lullaby…And The Ceaseless Roar. “It’s a good combination. We all know where we’re going.”

You can read an extract of Classic Rock‘s full interview with Robert Plant here.