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- Summary: The seventh studio release for the rock band was recorded while Robert Plant recovered from a car accident. The remastered deluxe edition includes five reference mixes of songs and the instrumental track 10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Rock
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Jul 31, 20151976’s Presence was both the nearest Zeppelin ever got to recreating their live power in a studio setting, and the album that bears closest inspection and repeated listening when the familiarity of earlier high spots has been exhausted.
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MojoJul 31, 2015Presence is the best of the three [remasters].... The deluxe edition's bonus track, a soft, piano-led instrumental titled Pod, reiterates how dark and gnarly the rest is. [Sep 2015, p.98]
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Aug 13, 2015Like Jimmy Page’s previous deluxe remasters, these new sets are fitfully revealing, littered with extras that even obsessives will write off as fluff. But the albums’ scattered brilliance has only deepened in the past four decades.
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Jul 31, 2015It might be their weakest album, but Presence is among the most special; none of these songs sound like they could have come from another record.
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Sep 11, 2015Like the rest of the band’s discography, Presence has gotten the remastered treatment, and like the rest of the re-releases, the bonus material leaves too much to be desired.... Despite its weak second half, Presence is too good of an album to be dismissed.
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Jul 31, 2015Devoid of the light and shade that had highlighted the many musical facets of the band, Led Zeppelin's seventh studio album remains a difficult album to take in a single sitting. For sure, it contains some incredible individual moments.... [Pod] A piano led instrumental dominated by the under-rated John Paul Jones and complete with some of Jimmy Page's most understated guitar playing, this is beautifully reflective music sharply at odds with what's contained on the parent album and worthy of investigation.
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Q MagazineJul 31, 2015Achilles Last Stand and Nobody's Fault But Mine notwithstanding, Presence sounds as rushed as it was. [Sep 2015, p.121]
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Sep 20, 2016
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Jan 9, 2023It's a great album. It's the cool one. This album's "presence" is essential "for my life."
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Aug 3, 2015
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