It shouldn't be surprising that the debut album by a band fronted by
Jason Bonham
, son of
Led Zeppelin
drummer
John Bonham
, would bear a resemblance to the music of Dad's band. But
The Disregard of Timekeeping
doesn't so much sound like a
album as it does like one of the solo albums by former
Zeppelin
singer
Robert Plant
. That is to say, it is altogether more conventional and controlled -- more
pop
, in a word -- than
, which could be quite adventurous at times. Here,
Bonham
-the-group sets up majestic guitar/keyboard riff patterns;
Daniel MacMaster
, in a familiar tenor screech, repeats simple chorus hooks; and
-the-drummer pounds away in the familiar hard, woody sound of his father. The result is palatable, but without the famous name it would be hard to distinguish from the army of other
Zep
imitators. ~ William Ruhlmann