Greta Van Fleet is a lot, is what I’m saying. They make music for people whose rock nostalgia was shaped by their coked-out uncles blasting Houses Of The Holy before Thanksgiving dinner. This band ransacks the hesher canon with an unbridled, reckless enthusiasm that makes Paul Stanley look like King Krule. To say that Greta Van Fleet is extremely derivative of old-school and very unfashionable 1970s arena rock doesn’t go nearly far enough. Even when their coverage is nominally positive, the music of Greta Van Fleet still garners comparisons to an “ejaculating hyena.” If you’ve heard even a minute of their music, it’s easy to understand why this is the case. Not since Nickelback has there been a popular group that’s been so easy for the press to pick on. As Atticus Finch once said, “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” Like Atticus, I am morally bound to defend those who have been piled on by my peers.Įnter Greta Van Fleet, the most critically reviled young rock band in America. In these moments, I must function as a kind of defense attorney for music that is widely maligned. But occasionally, a higher calling takes precedence. Most of the time, I make a living as a professional music critic.
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