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"I also don’t usually have any interest in Phish, or jam bands of that ilk, but here we have some kind of rare Phish concept album,
covered in its entirety. Nat Hawks, mastermind of the Little Fury Things record label, got the idea to take a recording of this Phish piece,
chop it into 100 segments of about 15 seconds to a minute and a half each, and get 100 different artists to cover each chunk.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have not heard much Phish and the chunk I heard sounded pretty indistinct.
Random noodling without much of a tune to speak of, and some kind of rambling story being spoken over the top.
So it’s kind of strange to me that the final result actually seems pretty cohesive and is a really enjoyable listen.
I am willing to bet it’s about a million times better than the source material. I don’t know how much it turned
out this way due to the selection of artists, or if everyone really did a decent job of keeping the vibe from the source material intact.
Almost everyone is doing something experimental, ranging from loose rock to free-folk to electronic to ambient to whatever,
but it all turns out pretty chill and trippy and a little edgy. Which happens to be the vibe of Little Fury Things in general also.
Many of the tracks blend smoothly into each other, some have distinct breaks in-between.
At times I wish they were all merged and blended together a little more completely, but it would have been
difficult since some artists seem to have covered their piece of music as though it were a stand-alone song,
with a beginning and an end. I’m amazed this whole thing actually got completed, and I sort of suspect that
several of the credited artists might actually be Nat under different aliases, but even if so, there are a huge variety
of sounds and approaches at work here. Just a few of the credited names that seemed familiar to me: Scissor Shock, Holzkopf,
say no to architecture, Teeth Mountain, Video Hippos, Robe., Yellow Crystal Star, Sperm Whales."
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