From The Fires

EPNov 10 / 20178 songs, 32m 11s
Hard Rock Blues Rock
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Michigan four-piece Greta Van Fleet are stirring up the sort of electrifying, hard-edged rock music that makes you want to rev your engine. On their breakout hit, “Highway Tune,” singer Josh Kiszka lays his high-pitched howl over ripping electric guitar and hammering drums with such slick polish, Led Zeppelin would be proud. “No stopping on the highway girl/Because I want to burn my gas,” he sings. It’s urgent, retro, and impressively precise—a must-listen for fans of \'70s classic rock and young guns keen to claim the genre for their generation. Don’t miss “Safari Song.”

Mitten State retro-rockers Greta Van Fleet sure do, and their debut long-player -- it's actually a pair of combined EPs -- delivers enough Plant-induced "Oh mamas," genuine Page-turners, and cavernous Bonham-esque beats to reforge the hammers of the gods ten times over.

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My first exposure to Greta Van Fleet was through the last 30 seconds of