Led Zeppelin IV by Erik Davis
“Some critics have argued that this freak-out (the breakdown on “Whole Lotta Love”) subtly undermines the masculine prerogative of the main riff, but the analog electronica also delivers a message hidden by the era’s more utopian fantasies about amplified sound: that your novelties and pleasures are won in part from the war machine; that there is no sex without power, no transcendence without death.”
-Erik Davis, 2005
