Greta Van Fleet

I did just hear their name last week after their Coachella show, and saw a pair of live videos. They're just Led Zep by numbers, aren't they? I mean, I left not very convinced but I supose there's potential.

EDIT: just saw the second video

european tour on the way.

Saw someone with a Greta Van Fleet t-shirt on today. It made me think of The Soapbox and nothing else.

even got a rocksmith pack now.

Pitchfork review

"Greta Van Fleet sound like they did weed exactly once, called the cops, and tried to record a Led Zeppelin album before they arrested themselves. The poor kids from Frankenmuth, Michigan don’t even realize they’re more of an algorithmic fever dream than an actual rock band. While they’re selling out shows all over the world, somewhere in a boardroom, a half-dozen people are figuring out just how, exactly, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are supposed to fit into the SUV with the rest of the Greta Van Fleet boys on “Carpool Karaoke.”

Just look at this photo: Brothers Jake and Sam Kiszka, on guitar and bass, are both wearing hippie costumes they 3D-printed off the internet. The singer, the wretched and caterwauling third brother, Josh, is in dangly feather earrings and vinyl pants, like he was dressed by a problematic Santa Fe palm-reader with a gift certificate to Chico’s. It’s a costume—Greta Van Fleet is all costume. And if things that look like another thing is your thing, get ready to throw your lighters up for a band whose guiding principle seems to be reading the worst Grand Funk Railroad songs as if they were a religious text.

Though their debut album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, sounds like a bona fide classic rock record—with its fuzzy bass, electric sitar solos, and lyrics featuring the kind of self-actualized transcendence brought on by a few too many multivitamins—it is not actually classic rock. They are a new kind of vampiric band who’s there to catch the runoff of original classic rock using streaming services’ data-driven business model. Greta Van Fleet exist to be swallowed into the algorithm’s churn and rack up plays, of which they already have hundreds of millions. They make music that sounds exactly like Led Zeppelin and demand very little other than forgetting how good Led Zeppelin often were.

1.6/10 "

tin of paint over those fuckers in a stone roses stylee.

You cut the bit where they say The Darkness got it right!

'I went to see a concert of theirs and they played everything perfectly'

IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE THE CD

People genuinely do still say that. Usually after I've ridiculed whatever supermarket gig they're going to.

What was it Mr David used to say? Music isn't for everyone.

Imagine not liking any new music since the demise of JJ72 only to champion this

still a damn sight better than parquet courts.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

No.