Album Review: Greta Van Fleet’s Anthem of The Peaceful Army Is A Must Listen
A Message From Greta Van Fleet’s Anthem of The Peaceful Army
Music, a dialect that enables us to communicate with no cultural or linguistic boundaries, that enriches and binds a human community emotionally and spiritually. It is a tool of peace and a revolution of the soul where freedom and harmony preside…… We are searchers of truth as were our greatest ancestors.
After reading that statement, I felt my perspective alter of Greta Van Fleet’s exceptional debut album: Anthem of The Peaceful Army. Suddenly, I was seeking the depth and details left in a record that feels like an earth. Every element of nature is founded in this album as this Michigan band searches for what makes a human being. While some believe that humanity is naturally evil, for Greta Van Fleet, we are a good species believing such a lie.
Greta Van Fleet – Lover, Leaver (Live)
From “Age of Man” to “Brave New World,” there album plays like an Aldous Huxley novel got smashed together with a Led Zeppelin record. My readers know I LOVE Led Zeppelin! So this is high praise coming from me. This band ignited a fantasy, Game of Thrones’ quality to music; making you believe that, in the end, life is divided between love, war, and those choosing either. Greta Van Fleet have a similar perspective, and reveal it with a literary precision; hence, my Huxley reference. You feel like you took a Soma, and are fighting its effect to make you numb and superficially beautiful. You want better, and Josh Kiszka’s voice can GIVE IT!
If Josh Kiszka is the new Robert Plant than his brother Jake is his Jimmy Page. The twin brothers create a music union that can bring them years of prosperous, powerful rock anthems. Josh’s voice feels like a tiger let out into the wild after being caged. When he sings his emotions runs with hind legs through notes, and the guttural effortlessness of it all is enthralling. Thus, when he is backed by guitars, drums, and keys rolling through like a safari through a future, city jungle, you are in awe. Your imagination is lit like a fuse, but their verses want to spark your fantasy about the earth you have, which is why their album is important.
Greta Van Fleet – When The Curtain Falls
Most fantastical records make you feel cosmically distant. You close your eyes, and you are in another planet, but, to Greta Van Fleet, such a spark in creativity should be saved for the world you have. These young guys are not wrong, and their ability to make the earth/ humanity a blank canvas with endless colors to paint from is uproariously, optimistically good. Thus, Greta Van Fleet’s Anthem of The Peaceful Army is one of the best albums of the year. NOT KIDDING! SO ROCK ON AND BUY IT ON OCTOBER 19. Click Here.
