Greta Van Fleet - The Battle at Garden’s Gate

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At their best at full throttle, the Michigan four-piece continue to channel 70s classic rock without restraint

Intermittently enjoyable as it was, Greta Van Fleet’s 2018 debut, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, was rather eclipsed by all the Led Zeppelin comparisons. The follow-up from the Michigan four-piece – three Kiszka brothers and Ken-from-Bros drummer Danny Wagner – isn’t going to completely put those parallels to bed. Built By Nations, in particular, seems to have been built on a riff that Jimmy Page lost down the back of his sofa around the time of Led Zeppelin II. Josh Kiszka’s vocals, meanwhile, are now as much in thrall to fellow West Midlander Noddy Holder as Robert Plant, most notably on My Way, Soon.

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