![]() ![]() energy is part of the record.”īand members were already settled on the album’s musical direction when they enlisted Kurstin in 2019, said Kiszka, figuring the producer could help marshal “the massive sonic landscapes” they envisioned. “We were kind of all over the place,” Kiszka said. The new music was produced at four Los Angeles-area facilities, most notably Henson Recording Studios, where GVF’s working neighbors included Justin Bieber and tech mogul Elon Musk, who was mixing an EDM track he released in early 2020. And the songwriting was a big element to that, too.” “We were able to get every performance to the point where we're very comfortable how it lives and interacts with the other instruments. “This was the first record where we were really able to completely dive in hands-on with everything, getting it all exactly the way we wanted it to sound,” Kiszka said. Brawny rockers remain - “My Way, Soon” has a snarling groove - and there are Led Zeppelin remnants via the sizzling riffage of songs such as “Built by Nations” and “Caravel.”īut “The Battle at Garden’s Gate” also finds the band aiming more cosmic, crafting heavy but ethereal soundscapes with the sort of complex edge first glimpsed on “Anthem.” In four years, Greta Van Fleet has moved from “Highway Tune” to the heavens. ![]() On the new album, the '70s spirit is intact, a bongs-and-black-lights aura still permeating the music’s nooks and crannies. Before the pandemic hit last spring, Greta was scheduled for a series of stadium dates with Metallica and was plotting its own arena headlining tour, including a homecoming show at Detroit's Little Caesars Arena. The band took the heat in stride, shrugging off critics as it toured the globe for ever-growing audiences. But naysayers slammed the band as a prefab Led Zeppelin knockoff, as if Greta Van Fleet had been concocted in some label board room. To many, the group was a long-awaited savior of vintage hard rock, earnestly conjuring a sound and style that had been missing for decades. ![]() By the time the full-length album “Anthem of the Peaceful Army” arrived in 2018, GVF had weirdly become one of the most controversial acts going. The band's ascent wasn’t without tension. Snatched up by Lava/Republic Records, the group was a national success out of the gate and to date has notched seven hits on Billboard’s mainstream rock chart - five of them No. The quartet was still very much a Michigan band when it broke big in 2017 with the lightning-in-a-bottle singles “Highway Tune” and “Safari Song,” hard-driving rockers recorded when the elder twins were barely 20. More: Robert Plant on Greta Van Fleet: 'They are Led Zeppelin' More: Meet the Michigan grandma who inspired Greta Van Fleet's name The group, whose management team was already based there, had become acquainted with Music City during recording sessions for its debut full-length album. Having grown up in tiny Frankenmuth, cutting their teeth in that area and eventually Detroit, band members officially settled in Nashville last year. In January, as promotion for the coming album ramped up, the single “My Way, Soon” became the latest rock chart-topper for the band of brothers and their childhood pal: twins Josh Kiszka (vocals) and Jake Kiszka (guitar) - turning 25 next week - with Sam Kiszka and Danny Wagner (drums), both 22. The new album is the first featuring the services of veteran producer Greg Kurstin, best known for his work with Adele, Paul McCartney and the Foo Fighters. ![]() “We went into this hoping to make a record that was fit to be the score of a fantastic film,” said bassist-keyboardist Sam Kiszka, who plays that organ intro on leadoff track “Heat Above.” “The Battle of Garden’s Gate,” released Friday, is the spiritually tinged, Technicolor-toned second album from a young hard-rock band that says it wanted to capture the personal growth and worldly experiences that accompanied the group’s international rise. The shimmering swirl of a Hammond B3 organ, a sound straight from the gospel church, opens Greta Van Fleet’s new album like a statement: We’ve got something a little different in mind this time. ![]()
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