GRETA VAN FLEET Guitarist Says Upcoming Album Will Be 'One Full Complete Thought'

August 1, 2018

GRETA VAN FLEET guitarist Jake Kiszka spoke to the DOMKcast about the progress of the recording sessions for the band's full-length debut, tentatively due before the end of the year.

Asked how the making of the new disc was different to the way GRETA VAN FLEET recorded its first two EPs, "Black Smoke Rising" and "From The Fires", Jake said (hear audio below): "It has some commonalities, but as far as [how] those two things differ, we had the ability to sit down with all the material that have written and go, 'Okay, now we have the ability to put something together that is a complete thought.' Whereas EPs are just kind of concepts — just short pieces — where now we have something that is one full complete thought.

"Because we'd stopped touring — we had pretty much been rigorously touring for the last maybe year and a half — we had these two weeks where all of this material started to kind of come to us," he continued. "I'd say about 50 percent of the album was material that was spontaneously written within the actual recording process of the album. So we started tracking a bunch of things that we've been writing while recording, and we'd just throw it down at the end of the night and have [basic] tracks to work from.

"In the similar light to 'Black Smoke Rising' and 'From The Fires', there was a collection of material that spanned probably about three years ago and material that was written right on the spot. And as we went along, [we would go], 'Okay, this song kind of fits here, and that leads to this,' and that helped us navigate what we wanted to put on the album."

GRETA VAN FLEET performed its new single, "When The Curtain Falls", on the July 26 episode of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon".

The band played in Michigan clubs for six years before rocketing to the top of the rock radio charts last year with "Highway Tune". The track is taken from the "Black Smoke Rising" EP.

GRETA VAN FLEET canceled its appearance at the Panorama festival in New York last weekend due to an injury sustained by drummer Danny Wagner two weeks ago.

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