They performed together at several independent music stores in the United States on the eve of the album’s release. so to speak. To celebrate the release of his new album, “starcatcher”, arrived on the shelves (both physical and digital) last Friday, Greta Van Fleet has decided to give a preview of the new songs to fans who pre-ordered physical versions of the album, asking store owners to reproduce it on the occasion of special “listening parties”. We don’t use the word “celebrate” by chance: The band, led by brothers Josh, Jake and Sam Kiszka, wanted revive an obsolete practice when, in the epic of records, the release of a new work by an artist or rock band was experienced as a worldwide worshipWhich provided that with friends you would sit around the stereo and devoutly and religiously listen to the music coming out of the Needle, study the covers, read the lyrics and admire pictures of your favourites.
,It remains the band’s mission to recapture that magic. Joe, five years since the release of his debut album “Anthem of the Peaceful Army”, has sold half a million copies in the United States alone in 2018, with the conversions continuing. philosophical revival disc sound and atmosphere classic rock titans,
Led Zeppelin cosplayers or rock’n’roll defenders?
i’m alone for some led zeppelin cosplayersA cover band of copycats playing music covered in tons of dust, a phenomenon that has been traveling the world for years, selling millions of tickets with shows that work just because touch the strings of nostalgia (By the way: The “Starcatcher” related tour, which will see the quartet perform at the temples of American live music over the next few weeks, from New York’s Madison Square Garden to Los Angeles’ Forum, will arrive in Europe in the autumn and stop in Italy for a single date on November 30 at Bologna’s Unipolarena.) almost sold out 4 months ago,
To others they are.inspired by old school rockThe strongest and clearest proof that the elusive spirit of ’70s rock and roll is back. The truth, as fragments of the new album confirm, lies somewhere in between., Greta Van Fleet continues to rock openly and shamelessly exaggerate, a fascinating revival that also recovers the historical cornerstones and conventions of the genre. Just listen to pieces like “Fate of the Faithful”, “The Falling Sky” or the single “Meeting the Master”, which range from blues rock to slightly stoner space rock with psychedelic nuances: “It’s impossible not to listen to ‘Starcatcher’ and, like all previous works, it’s impossible not to think you’ve stumbled upon a series performed by Led Zeppelin and some of their collaborators.wrote David Brown in his Rolling Stone USA review.
Rock without frills, but packaged well (and sleek)
In an era where electronic pop, rap, and trap dominate the charts, the fact that five years after her inception, Greta Van Fleet is still around and still making waves is, somehow, great news: it means that There is still a demand for a group that plays healthy rock, no frills, a bit “ignorant” but well packaged (Also on the aesthetic level: like “our” Maneskin, Greta Van Fleet also plays with a look liquid – Singer Joshua Kizzka recently said: “I’ve been in a loving, same-sex relationship with my partner for 8 years,” he said), which doesn’t compromise.
American Star System made available Joshua Kiszka and collaborated with pop-rock wizards like Greg Kurstin (going from the Foo Fighters and Beck to Britney Spears and Katy Perry), who, however, as some critics pointed out, gave “The Battle at the Garden Gate” a slightly more glossy production than the previous one. He gave priority to them during this period.dave cobbwith a “rockier” pedigree (typically working with Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, and Sammy Hagar), retreating and Getting over the rough start: Bassist Sam Kiszka said, “Conceptually it goes back to our beginnings, in our garage, with the raw energy of the sound.”
Greta Van Fleet is still an example
Greta Van Fleet recorded ten of the album’s tracks at Nashville’s famed RCA Studios to capture the energy of her live performances: the shortest – if we exclude the jam “Runway Blues”, which serves as an interlude – is “The Falling Sky”, which runs for 3.38 minutes, the longest is “Sacred the Thread”, which runs for 5.21 minutes. These details also evoke the pride and retro pride of Greta Van Fleet: “We listen to a lot of things on some radio stations not to our liking. There is no substance in this ‘pop music’. It almost insults people’s intelligence“. Be patient that five years after the debut the band – led by Joshua Kizka – was endowed with an extension and a vocal power that probably makes it into more than one passage of the disc Best singer in rock history since Axl Rose’s golden years – stay “Case: Greta Van Fleet they went to fill a voidToday, carrying on a musical tradition is in danger more than ever. Rock thanks.