Greta Van Fleet

Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 4, 2023 · Comments off

Starcatcher’s production-helmed by Grammy winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell) is more stripped-down than that of ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’, allowing the instrumentation to shine. Take the album’s haunting, elegiac first single, ‘Meeting the Master,’ which at first pairs rich, wistful acoustic guitars with Josh’s yearning vocals, before blooming into a classic Greta Van Fleet rock ‘n’ roll anthem with a majestic guitar solo and pummeling drums. Starcatcher is the sound of four musicians amplifying one another’s strengths, across snarling, barnstorming rock (‘The Falling Sky’), meditative, gnarled hard rock (‘Sacred the Thread’), acoustic-driven pastoral folk-rock (‘Farewell for Now’), and stinging psychedelic rock (‘The Indigo Streak’). Occasional organ or keyboard flourishes pop out of the mix, adding texture and melodrama.

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Greta Van Fleet – The Battle at Garden’s Gate (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 23, 2023 · Comments off

The Battle at Garden’s Gate is the kind of album title that accurately reflects the contents within. Greta Van Fleet isn’t much concerned with the modern world, preferring to live in a fantasy of their own creation, one cobbled together with ideas learned from old albums from Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Styx. All these elements were in place on their 2018 debut Anthem of the Peaceful Army, but they’re amplified on The Battle at Garden’s Gate, an album that makes everything that worked the first time bigger and louder, or just more. The group’s unexpected success meant they had the power to enlist an A-list producer, so they brought Greg Kurstin – a Grammy winner for his work with Adele and Beck who also helmed records by Paul McCartney and Foo Fighters – into the studio to help shape their fanciful notions and heavy riffs. Kurstin manages to conjure the expansive vistas that were so common in 1974, letting the band puff up their pomp and ramble on. As texture is Greta Van Fleet’s main gift, this is for the best: the extra length gives the impression that the group is in control of their fantasy. This spell works best when guitarist Jake Kiszka, bassist Sam Kiszka, and drummer Danny Wagner labor to conjure the ghost of Houses of the Holy, paying rapt attention to the slight shifts in light and shade. The spell is punctured whenever Josh Kiszka stumbles in to caterwaul his tales of barbarians and nations. More Geddy Lee than Robert Plant, Josh Kiszka commands attention then alienates; his wail is the weak link in a group who is getting better at their period-accurate cosplay. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Greta Van Fleet – From The Fires (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 23, 2023 · Comments off

Greta Van Fleet are brothers Josh (vocals), Jake (guitar), Sam (bass/keys) Kiszka, & best friend Danny Wagner (drums). With their debut single ‘Highway Tune’ #1 at Active and Mainstream Rock radio, their first-ever tour of the U.S. completely sold-out, Greta Van Fleet is – in just a few months – as hot a brand-new band as one can be. „From The Fires“ is the band’s debut mini-album, which includes the 4 tracks from their previously released EP, ‘Black Smoke Rising’ along with 4 new tracks. Putting the four old tracks and the four new recordings together made perfect sense, says singer Josh Kiszka: “All eight of these songs share a theme of basic humanity.”

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Greta Van Fleet – Anthem Of The Peaceful Army (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 23, 2023 · Comments off

Greta Van Fleet – Jake Kiszka/guitars, Sam Kiszka/bass & keys, Josh Kiszka/vocals, and Danny Wagner/drums – is very proud to announce the upcoming release of the band’s debut album, Anthem of The Peaceful Army, due out October 19 on Virgin EMI/Lava Records. Collectively written by all four band members, the ten original songs explore a variety of topics that include fresh starts, love, integrity, innocence, adventure, diversity and peace, the life cycle and its inherent responsibilities, courage, masked deceptions, revolution, and truth. Blending rock, soul and blues, Jake’s blazing guitar riffs, Josh’s soaring, powerful vocals, Danny’s thunderous drums, and Sam’s swaggering baselines and keys create a menagerie of musical elements throughout. Anthem of the Peaceful Army was produced by Marlon Young, Al Sutton and Herschel Boone (The Rust Brothers) and recorded earlier this year at Blackbird Studios in Nashville and Rustbelt Studios in Royal Oak, Michigan.

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