Greta Van Fleet - Palace for the People - Indie Exclusive Origin Variant - 2XLP

Greta Van Fleet remain the most consistently successful standard bearers for The New Rock’N’Roll. While the mania that greeted them at the tail end of the 2010s has abated, the Michigan band’s three albums to date have still all breached the US Top 10, a feat that Rival Sons, The Struts, Dirty Honey and the rest can only dream of.

Palace For The People – named after North London venue Alexandra Palace, of all places – keeps their end up. Tear It Down and Into The Beginning shake their arena-rock tail feathers splendidly, defined instantly by Josh Kiszka’s rafter-rattling screech, which once again overshadows brother Jake’s impressively protean guitar playing.   

Greta Van Fleet clearly aren’t Led Zeppelin, and 2026 couldn’t be more different from 1971 in terms of the musical landscape, but Palace For The People is the work of a band that have found their groove and are sticking to it. That’s fine as far as it goes – Greta Van Fleet continue to make hay at a time when for so many of their peers the sun isn’t shining. But it’s difficult not to want more ambition from a band who clearly have it in them to deliver something spectacular.    

1. Into the Beginning
2. Tear It Down
3. Heart and the Beat
4. Boughten Bliss
5. Field of Stars
6. Play Your Games
7. Dreams You Hold
8. Lost in the Golden
9. Touch Again
10. Saw You Stand
11. Heya
12. Call My Own
13. Born Into This