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│ + Greta Van Fleet - Anthem Of The Peaceful Army + │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Rls Date..2020-01-24 Encoder......LAME 64bits version ║ │
│║ Genre.....Hard Rock Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year......2018 Khz/Bitrate..44.1 / VBR kbps ║ │
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│║ Ripper....Anthem Songs........10 ║ │
│║ Source....CD Covers.......Yes ║ │
│║ Url..http://www.gretavanfleet.com ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Greta Van Fleet ║ │
│║ Album : Anthem Of The Peaceful Army ║ │
│║ Label : Republic Records ║ │
│║ Cat.No : 00602567964438 ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ 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 donÆt even realize theyÆre more of an ║ │
│║ algorithmic fever dream than an actual rock band. While ║ │
│║ theyÆre 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 ║ │
│║ ôCarpool Karaoke.ö ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ 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 ║ │
│║ ChicoÆs. ItÆs a costumeùGreta 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 recordùwith its fuzzy ║ │
│║ bass, electric sitar solos, and lyrics featuring the kind ║ │
│║ of self-actualized transcendence brought on by a few too ║ │
│║ many multivitaminsùit is not actually classic rock. They ║ │
│║ are a new kind of vampiric band whoÆs there to catch the ║ │
│║ runoff of original classic rock using streaming servicesÆ ║ │
│║ data-driven business model. Greta Van Fleet exist to be ║ │
│║ swallowed into the algorithmÆs 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. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ ItÆs possible to be an exceptional classic rock vampire act ║ │
│║ but it requires something more than the major label money ║ │
│║ and vaguely Native American accoutrements. ItÆs why Greta ║ │
│║ Van Fleet canÆt compete with, say, the Darkness circa ║ │
│║ 2003Æs ôI Believe in a Thing Called Love.ö The Darknessùwho ║ │
│║ aped big rock warhorses like Queen and Aerosmith and Van ║ │
│║ Halenùwere so outrageous that they had to be credulous. ║ │
│║ They had a song that went, ôGet your hands off of my woman, ║ │
│║ mother fuckerö and did a power metal cover of RadioheadÆs ║ │
│║ ôStreet Spirit (Fade Out).ö Who would do such garish ║ │
│║ things? They dared you, tongue in cheek, to take this ║ │
│║ impossibly foolish thing very seriously. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ Greta Van Fleet do no such thing. They care so deeply and ║ │
│║ are so precious with their half-baked boomer fetishism, ║ │
│║ they mollycoddled every impulse of late-Æ60s rockænÆroll ║ │
│║ into an interminable 49-minute drag. Each song here could ║ │
│║ be written or played by any of a thousand classic rock ║ │
│║ cover bands that have standing gigs at sports bars and ║ │
│║ biker joints across America (the same venues where Greta ║ │
│║ Van Fleet cut their teeth when they were kids). So why ║ │
│║ should Greta Van Fleet be the ones signed to Republic and ║ │
│║ William Morris, because they donÆt have bald spots yet? ║ │
│║ Tons of people in those cover bands play their instruments ║ │
│║ better than Greta Van Fleet, who are, currently, proficient ║ │
│║ at best. No one in this band offers anything in the way of ║ │
│║ personality that doesnÆt sound like your average YouTube ║ │
│║ tutorial for a Jimmy Page-type pentatonic solo or a John ║ │
│║ Bonham-type shuffle. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ And at least Zeppelin knew to separate their ║ │
│║ sweet-lady-IÆm-horny songs from their ║ │
│║ howling-about-literary-fantasy songs. Hilariously, Greta ║ │
│║ Van Fleet combine them into one on ôThe Cold Wind,ö where ║ │
│║ the narrator (who is dying) begs his ôsweet mamaö to take ║ │
│║ the family ox (I guess) to town to sell it, when, ║ │
│║ mid-ox-transaction, this happens: ôThe Yankee peddler ║ │
│║ bargains with you on his way/Whoa sweet mamaÆs gotten ║ │
│║ herself a new dress.ö ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ ThatÆs funny, but itÆs not supposed to be funny, because ║ │
│║ Greta Van Fleet do not possess self-awarenessùat all. When ║ │
│║ asked about a characteristically ugh lyric (ôAll my ║ │
│║ brothers who stand up/For the peace of the landö), Jake ║ │
│║ responded, in part, ôI guess itÆs subject to ║ │
│║ interpretation. But I think the initial idea with that was ║ │
│║ that, as brothers, we stand for the peace of land. And that ║ │
│║ was for the good of the Earth, and for man.ö Ignoring that ║ │
│║ this is basically a gag in Spinal Tap, a much better answer ║ │
│║ that would speak to the spirit of the music they are trying ║ │
│║ to capture would be: ôI donÆt know, who gives a shit.ö ║ │
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│║ What they lack in self-awareness they more than make up for ║ │
│║ in rigid self-consciousness, failing to make any fun or ║ │
│║ campy choices to lift these songs out of a morass of the ║ │
│║ worst impulses of Rush and Cream. The back half of the ║ │
│║ album alternates between the ignorable and unforgivable, ║ │
│║ from what is (a somewhat fun stomper ôMountain of the Sunö) ║ │
│║ to what should never be: ôThe New Dayö features Josh ║ │
│║ singing about watching a child grow in a garden, seeing her ║ │
│║ bloom so she can ôbe a woman soon.ö None of this ║ │
│║ lysergic-sexual thinking is within the bandÆs grasp, they ║ │
│║ are just swatting at crusty platitudes and copy-pasting old ║ │
│║ mythos hoping no one notices that they are too small, too ║ │
│║ inept to even put forth one meaningful, specific, original ║ │
│║ idea. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ But for as retro as Anthem of the Peaceful Army may seem, ║ │
│║ in actuality, it is the future. ItÆs proof of concept that ║ │
│║ in the streaming and algorithm economy, a band doesnÆt need ║ │
│║ to really capture the past, it just needs to come close ║ │
│║ enough so that a computer can assign it to its definite ║ │
│║ article. The more unique it sounds, the less chance it has ║ │
│║ to be placed alongside what you already love. So when the ║ │
│║ Greta Van Fleet of your favorite artist finally lands on ║ │
│║ your morning playlist, spark up a bowl of nostalgia and ║ │
│║ enjoy the self-satisfied buzz of recognizing something you ║ │
│║ already know. ItÆs the cheapest high in music. ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 1. Age Of Man 6:06 │
│ 2. The Cold Wind 3:16 │
│ 3. When The Curtain Falls 3:43 │
│ 4. Watching Over 4:27 │
│ 5. Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer) 6:01 │
│ 6. You're The One 4:26 │
│ 7. The New Day 3:44 │
│ 8. Mountain Of The Sun 4:30 │
│ 9. Brave New World 5:00 │
│ 10. Anthem 4:38 │
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│ Total Length : 00:45:51 │
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