“ART IS SUPPOSED TO ELICIT STRONG REACTIONS, ISN’T IT?”

Jake Kiszka asks rhetorically. The Greta Van Fleet guitarist is considering the extreme, diametrically opposed responses his band has received since they first topped radio playlists in 2017 with their single, “Highway Tune.” On the one side, there are those who have hailed the Michigan quartet as the brightest young band of this millennium and the redhot shot of adrenaline that rock has sorely needed. On the other side, there are the detractors who have tagged the group as nothing more than competent yet shameless Led Zeppelin clones. It’s a “love ’em or hate ’em” proposition with little gray area in between.