9/12/2023 0 Comments Greta van fleet new album 2021![]() ![]() ![]() It advances the formula of the group’s earlier, more basic recordings with lots more keyboards and acoustic guitars (and even strings) and slower songs, many with quasi-philosophical titles like “Age of Machine” and “Built by Nations.” Several of those tracks are epic in their ambitions: More than half hit the five-minute mark, and one is almost nine minutes long - all of which, of course, only makes the album truer to its forebears (speaking of which, the coda of “Broken Bells” evokes Donovan’s 1969 anthem “Atlantis”).īut then again, “The Battle at Garden’s Gate” wouldn’t be authentic if it skimped on length or didn’t end with the nearly nine-minute song. Without drawing too fine a parallel, much of “Battle” evokes mid-’70s Rush - circa “2112” and “A Farewell to Kings” - with a nod to the Zeppelin albums that influenced those works. That path, essentially, is doubling down on the influences. Needless to say, he gets Greta Van Fleet, and helps them to define the path forward. That expertise and versatility comes into play on “The Battle at Garden’s Gate,” which sees the group teamed with two-time Grammy-winning producer of the year Greg Kurstin, who has worked with Adele, Sia, Kelly Clarkson and Paul McCartney - and also Beck and the Foo Fighters. Happily, that notion underestimates both the band and, not least, its record label, Lava Records, which was founded by veteran A&R executive Jason Flom, who cut his teeth on hard-rock acts of the ’80s but also signed Tori Amos, Katy Perry and Lorde. ![]()
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