Anthem of the Peaceful Army
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19th October 2018 |
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55 min 28 s |
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Al Sutton & Marlon Young |
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Anthem of the Peaceful Army is the debut album of American classic rock - band Greta Van Fleet . The album was released on October 19, 2018 via Lava Records .
Emergence
Greta Van Fleet have been on tour almost continuously since spring 2017. For the debut album, the band actually wanted to fall back on three to five year old song ideas, rearrange them and record them for the first time. However, this plan was quickly rejected by the musicians. According to Sam Kiszka, the band preferred to “keep the old songs in memory as they are”. Instead, three-quarters of the tracks on the album were created from studio jam sessions . For the opening riff of Brave New World , guitarist Jake Kiszka experimented for hours before he was satisfied. One of the older songs that were used for the album was Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer) , which had been heavily revised, changed and shortened in the studio. According to Jake Kiszka, the musicians would have “just flown to the ideas” during this phase. In addition, the songs would cover a wider range than previous titles.
Was produced Anthem of the Peaceful Army collectively as Al Sutton, Marlon Young and Herschel Boone, The Rust Brothers known. Sutton and Young had already produced the two EPs Black Smoke Rising and From the Fires . The recordings took place at Blackbird Studios in Nashville and at Rustbelt Studios in Royal Oak . The entire recordings only took two weeks, whereby a four-week studio stay had actually been estimated. For the quasi-theme song Anthem , Jake Kiszka used a lap steel guitar . For the song Watching Over he used a modified guitar that sounds like a sitar . Sam Kiszka plays a Hammond organ on the song You're the One . During the recording, the band was visited by actor Tom Hanks , whose wife Rita Wilson recorded an album in the side studio at the same time.
"He said:" Great shit! I like this stuff! ”We sat flattened and just thought: Wow! That's the best part of it all. "
Al Sutton and Marlon Young mixed the album while Ryan Smith did the mastering . Tanner Peters and Jason Mott worked as sound engineers . The album cover was designed by the artists Kyledidthis and Ashley Pawlak.
publication
On 26 July 2018, the band played the song When The Curtain Falls in the NBC telecast The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon . The second single Watching Over was released on September 7, 2018 and the third single Lover, Leaver on September 21, 2018. On October 19, 2018 the album title and the release date were announced. Three days after the album was released, the fourth single Age of Man was released. For this purpose, an app was developed that leads the listener to a park , where they can then listen to the song. The digital version of the album also contains the song Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer) as a bonus track . For the song When The Curtain Falls one were music video rotated. In addition to the regular version, there is also a so-called “vertical video”, in which the image is intentionally shown upright. To give the video an old-fashioned look, a Super 8 filter was used.
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The album title means translated hymn of the peaceful army and according to Jake Kiszka is the title of a poem that Josh Kiszka wrote. The more concerts the band played, the more the musicians realized that the title refers to their audience, who come from different age groups and appreciate the band's music. According to a press release, it is a concept album that " reflects the idea of the cycle of life between life and death , beginning and end in lyrics on new beginnings, love , honesty , innocence , adventure, diversity and peace ".
“The album asks big questions. What are we doing to ourselves? What are we doing to our environment? What are we doing to each other? Why does there have to be hatred? And why must there be greed and evil? I think the album just asks why we can't all be one? We are all human. We look up to the same sky and breathe the same air. "
According to Jake Kiszka, the album should take the listener on a journey that lasts from the first to the last song. Nowadays, many people would only consume and buy individual songs. With the album, the band wants to "create something that gives the listener a cohesive experience".
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Reviews
For Frank Thiessies from the German magazine Metal Hammer , Greta Van Fleet manages "effortlessly to fuse blues, (hard) rock and folk, to hit that intangible Tolkien tone and to build up a magical aura". It would be "easy to label the album as characterless copyist's stuff". Thiessies awarded six out of seven points. According to Jörg Staude from the German magazine Rock Hard , Greta Van Fleet "would be knee-deep in her seventies with her bell-bottoms and make Kingdom Come from the eighties look like blunt copyists". The "youngster would be another (and damn good) counter-example to Gene Simmons ' claim that rock is dead". Staude awarded eight out of ten points. The album was also praised in non-genre magazines. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung named Anthem of the Peaceful Army album of the week. Franziska Müller certified the band to have an "almost tantric mixture of rock , blues and soul " and that "their art of combining folk songwriting with the unrestrained force of rock is unique".
Thomas Smith from the New Musical Express was more critical , for whom little original happens on this album. The album would be " chased by the ghosts of Jimi Hendrix , Cream , AC / DC and most obviously Led Zeppelin ". Smith awarded three out of five stars. Jeremy D. Larson from the online magazine Pitchfork Media , who described the album as a “half- baked boomer fetish ” and “49-minute, endless boring”. Each song could also have been written or played by "one of the thousand other classic rock cover bands ." Larson awarded 1.6 out of ten points.
Chart placements
Anthem of the Peaceful Army climbed to number three in the German and US-American and number twelve on the British album charts. In the US, 87,000 equivalent units of the album were sold. Of this, 80,000 were traditional album sales. Looking at the latter album sales only, Anthem of the Peaceful Army was the best-selling album of the week. In addition, the album reached number six in Italy, Sweden and Switzerland, number seven in New Zealand and number ninth in Austria and Belgian Wallonia .
The singles When the Curtain Falls and You're the One each reached number one on Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs . The band had previously done this with the singles Highway Tune and Safari Song .
Awards
The German magazine Visions led Anthem of the Peaceful Army on their list of 50 albums of the year in 2018 in fourth place. With the Kerrang! Awards 2019 Anthem of the Peaceful Army was nominated in the category Best Album . However, the award went to the band Ghost .
Music Canada awarded the album with a gold record in 2019 . The album also received gold from the Polish company Związek Producentów Audio-Video .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Alexander Kolbe: Journey to the stars . In: Rocks , 06/2018, page 36
- ↑ a b Florian Schneider: The boy band of rock . In: Visions , issue 308, page 38
- ↑ Video: GRETA VAN FLEET Performs 'When The Curtain Falls' On 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'. Blabbermouth.net , accessed July 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Chad Childers: Greta Van Fleet Send Fans Toward Nature to Hear New Song 'Age of Man'. Loudwire, accessed October 23, 2018 .
- ^ Spencer Kaufman: Greta Van Fleet unveiled retro-looking vertical video for “When the Curtain Falls”: Watch. Consequence of Sound, accessed November 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Cottone: INTERVIEW: Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka On New Album, Influences & More. GoodMusicAllDay, accessed October 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Dennis Drögemüller: Hard rocker Greta Van Fleet announce debut album, stream new song "Watching Over". Visions , accessed September 7, 2018 .
- ↑ GRETA VAN FLEET Bassist On 'Anthem Of The Peaceful Army' Album: 'We've Grown Monstrously'. Blabbermouth.net, accessed October 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE - AT - CH - UK - US
- ^ Frank Thiessies: Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army. Metal Hammer . Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
- ^ Jörg Staude: Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army. Rock Hard , accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ^ Franziska Müller: New hymns for old hippies. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Smith: Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army. New Musical Express , accessed October 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Jeremy D. Larson: Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army. Pitchfork Media , accessed October 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Jeff Cornell: Rock Thrives as Disturbed + Greta Van Fleet Albums Debut on Billboard Top Five. Loudwire, accessed October 29, 2018 .
- ↑ GRETA VAN FLEET Lands Fourth 'Mainstream Rock Songs' No. 1 With 'You're The One'. Blabbermouth.net, accessed March 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Online editorial team: Our 50 records of the year 2018: Place 25-1. Visions, accessed December 31, 2018 .
- ↑ wookubus: Metallica, Ghost, Architects, Etc. Among Winners For 2019 'Kerrang! Awards'. The PRP, accessed June 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Gold / platinum. Music Canada , accessed August 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Pryzyznane w 2019 roku. Związek Producentów Audio-Video , accessed August 26, 2019 (Polish).
Web links
- Anthem of the Peaceful Army on Allmusic (English)