Phish

This 2004 release finds the jam rock gods exploring 1960s psyche-pop, funky classic rock-ish boogie, and even countrified alterna-rock. Longtime Phish fans have come to expect such innovative genre-mutation, but newcomers and nonbelievers may be in for a surprise here. "Army Of One" is their best Grateful Dead song yet.

For their twelfth and last studio album, Phish team up with the most fitting producer they've
ever used: Tchad Blake, whose talent for bringing just the right unorthodox textures to
roots-rock artists has yielded breakthrough works such as Los Lobos' Kiko and Sheryl
Crow's second album, Sheryl Crow. On Undermind, Blake encourages Phish to do what
they do best (experiment) and fine-tunes their worst tendencies (weak songwri... More >