No band has been more critically divisive in the past six years than Greta Van Fleet. The hard rock nostalgics’ 2018 debut album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, was hailed by Classic Rock magazine as “exhilarating” while, conversely, major US music site Pitchfork awarded it a score of 1.6 out of 10.
If the critics can be sniffy, the band has inspired adulation among fans. Elton John, for one, loves the band so much he once invited them to perform at his Academy Award party. Five years on from that debut, they say the criticism reveals more about their detractors than it does about them and their music.
