Evolve by Phish

Evolve, Phish's sixteenth studio album, came out on July 12, 2024, on the band's own JEMP Records, their first album in four years since Sigma Oasis (not counting the 2022 detour Get More Down, credited to the alter ego Sci-Fi Soldier). Bryce Goggin and Vance Powell produced, and a painting by Mehdi Ghadyanloo sits on the cover.

Plenty of these songs had already lived other lives. The title track, "A Wave of Hope" and "Lonely Trip" first turned up on Trey Anastasio's solo album Lonely Trip, "Hey Stranger" and "Mercy" on his Mercy, and "Life Saving Gun" on January, his collaboration with keyboardist Page McConnell. Several had been road-tested on stage too, "Evolve" as far back as August 2021. Here Anastasio, McConnell, bassist Mike Gordon and drummer Jon Fishman, the same four since 1986, give them the full-band treatment: warm, bright and unhurried, the sprawling jams folded down into sunny, tidy songs.

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