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
Led Zeppelin 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
Zeppelin, 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
Bonham-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