Greta Van Fleet Post New Single Meeting The Master
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Neil Krug
Greta Van Fleet have shared a new single, Meeting The Master.
Opening with acoustic guitar, the slow-burning epic arrives as the first preview of the Michigan rock band's new album, 'Starcatcher', which they announced earlier in April. They said:
"Meeting The Master peers into an esoteric world heeded by the word of a wise teacher. Sung in the voice of a devout believer, and eventual group exclamation, the song details the love these fervent followers have for their teacher and their firm belief in his vision. It’s an exotic spiritual journey. A dark comedy that inevitably ends in chaos."
Recorded with Dave Cobb at his legendary RCA Studios in Nashville, the 10-song follow-up to 2021's 'The Battle At Garden's Gate' will arrive on July 21.
"We didn’t really have to force or be intense about writing, because everything that happened was very instinctual," guitarist Jake Kiszka added. "If anything, the record is our perspective, and sums up where we are as a group and individually as musicians."
"We had this idea that we wanted to tell these stories to build a universe,” explained drummer Danny Wagner. "We wanted to introduce characters and motifs and these ideas that would come about here and there throughout our careers through this world."
"When I imagine the world of Starcatcher, I think of the cosmos,” bassist and keyboard player Sam Kizska revealed. "It makes me ask a lot of questions, like ‘Where did we come from?’ or ‘What are we doing here?’ But it’s also questions like, ‘What is this consciousness that we have, and where did it come from?'"
"We didn’t really have to force or be intense about writing, because everything that happened was very instinctual," added vocalist Josh Kizska. "If anything, the record is our perspective, and sums up where we are as a group and individually as musicians."
1. Fate Of The Faithful
2. Waited All Your Life
3. The Falling Sky
4. Sacred The Thread
5. Runway Blues
6. The Indigo Streak
7. Frozen Light
8. The Archer
9. Meeting The Master
10. Farewell For Now
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