★★★★★
It's been a while since Trey Anastasio has released a proper studio album. Phish's lead guitarist was quite active as a solo artist during his main band's various hiatuses in the '00s, touring and recording extensively with the not so creatively named Trey Anastasio Band (TAB), which ranged in size from a guitar-bass-drums trio to an expanded seven or eight-piece band with a full horn section...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-12
★★★★★
It's been a while since Trey Anastasio has released a proper studio album. Phish's lead guitarist was quite active as a solo artist during his main band's various hiatuses in the '00s, touring and recording extensively with the not so creatively named Trey Anastasio Band (TAB), which ranged in size from a guitar-bass-drums trio to an expanded seven or eight-piece band with a full horn section...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-12
★★★★★
ATO Trey Anastasio has long threatened to unleash his inner hipster, from trying out songs by Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel and TV on the Radio with Phish to name-dropping My Bloody Valentine and Animal Collective in interviews. But with Traveler, Anastasio finally lets his plaid flag fly, pouring his latest solo material into an indie rock mold. As genre labels go, indie rock is even less precise than "jamband," and the musical meaning of the term has evolved drastically throughout the years...
- www.relix.com
2012-11-09
★★★★★
As a lyricist, Trey Anastasio has always been plagued with a case of arrested development, content with bromides straight out of the pop-psychology handbook, or else the occasional song cycle about imaginary worlds drawn in broad, crayon-like strokes. Traveler marks no departure from this pattern, but its music moves in a distinctly chamber-pop direction under the guidance of producer Peter Katis, noted for his work with Jukebox the Ghost, the National, Interpol, et al...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
Like the swirling, impressionistic painting on the cover of Trey Anastasio's first studio release since 2009, the sound is impossible to easily describe...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
Phish, the jam-band phenomenon that succeeded the Grateful Dead for so many fans but was really always much better than that, called it quits about two years ago. For the faithful, it was a genuine funeral. If you could get past the clouds of herb and the 20-minute guitar solos, Phish was a whimsical band--a group that played funk and jazz and bluegrass in about equal measures, rarely "rocking" at all...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Phish, the jam-band phenomenon that succeeded the Grateful Dead for so many fans but was really always much better than that, called it quits about two years ago. For the faithful, it was a genuine funeral. If you could get past the clouds of herb and the 20-minute guitar solos, Phish was a whimsical band--a group that played funk and jazz and bluegrass in about equal measures, rarely "rocking" at all...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Phish, the jam-band phenomenon that succeeded the Grateful Dead for so many fans but was really always much better than that, called it quits about two years ago. For the faithful, it was a genuine funeral. If you could get past the clouds of herb and the 20-minute guitar solos, Phish was a whimsical band--a group that played funk and jazz and bluegrass in about equal measures, rarely "rocking" at all...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Trey Anastasio ranks among the finest electric guitarists in recent rock-and-roll history. He also receives top marks as a vocalist, as a bandleader and as a composer. On the flipside, the former Phish frontman doesn't score quite so highly as a lyricist. "Shine" is Anastasio's first solo effort since Phish called it quits last August with a weekend-long party for 60,000 "Phriends" in Vermont. It's also his first full-length, song-driven album for which he's penned all the lyrics...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
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