Briefly: Phish’s Time Turns Elastic on iTunes
When a band releases their first single in nearly five years they usually tell their fans, but when does Phish do anything by the book? Last night a version of the Trey Anastasio-penned 13 minute suite Time Turns Elastic – recorded recently in New York City by the quartet for their new album produced by Steve Lilywhite – was put up for sale on iTunes, but the only way you’d know is if you happened to be searching the iTunes store for Phish or you caught wind of the release on a message board.
Have you downloaded the track? Let us know what you think…
UPDATE (11:19AM): Phish.com has been updated with the video above and a news item about this new single that includes word that the as-of-yet-untitled new album will drop on July 28th.
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.
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Pretty good so far. Nice 13-minute single, Phish! Lyrically and musically I still like it more than BDTNL. Nice prog-rock feel to the song.
I think it’s pretty cool that nearly five years to the day after Trey broke our hearts by breaking up the band the boys have put out their first 3.0 single.
What a difference five years makes! The health of this band hasn’t been this good since the mid-’90s.
Awesome so far… pretty ballsy to make your first “single” a 13 minute opus.
it’s available for listen on their myspace page
new vid on Phish.com
nice video again! thanks Phish!
I like it. I like all the twists and turns through the deep textures.
OK. Gets an “A” for effort. Another track I will buy and probably listen to twice (i.e. Headphones Jam). Nevertheless, positive move.
My vision for Phish: A mix between GRAB and Wilco. More Funk, write songs ABOUT something. Doesn’t seem to be where Trey’s head is though.
Looking forward to Sunday!!!!
Wow, Rob S. Your “vision” for Phish? Because after 26 years of music they should be something different? They’ve never written songs ABOUT something, and that’s part of the beauty of Phish.
As for the new single, I am pretty amazed right now. Ballsy is right! And it sounds GREAT.
Fun song. Can’t wait to hear them twist this out at Jones Beach!
Haven’t heard it yet, but have heard Trey’s new album with the orchestra–a little weird to release the same song twice with two different bands. The Trey cut definitely got stuck in my head.
btw, Headphone jam is awesome; literally listened to it twice on Sunday.
Holy smokes.
Several times this reminded me of The Grateful Dead’s Terrapin Station. Serious. Beautiful. Scary. Jubiliant. Wow gang.
[...] “I began writing this little tune for Phish — and it just kept growing and growing,” Anastasio said in the release. A video posted on the Phish site features footage of the band performing the track in the studio. The song is also streaming in its long entirety over at Phish’s MySpace page. Even before the announcement video, however, the track was found on iTunes by eagle-eyed Phans hours, according to Glide Magazine. [...]
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im sorry..its not what i was hoping for. sounds like a hod-podge of old phish tunes thrown together…ive been following since 92.billy breathes/ghost are the best..production on this is lacking..a little hallow and the tune is not so hot.
I like it. Sometime’s Trey’s voice is unusually out front or louder in the mix, but overall I’d give it an A-. I can’t wait to see what Kuroda does with it!
WHY CAN’T I DOWNLOAD IT!?!? why o why!?! “this song is being modified”!!!?
i’ve been waiting all freakin day for this, itunes. you are pushing me to bit torrent, dammit!!
but seriously, any ideas what this is??
nevermind. problem solved. whew.
[...] “I began writing this little tune for Phish — and it just kept growing and growing,” Anastasio said in the release. A video posted on the Phish site features footage of the band performing the track in the studio. The song is also streaming in its long entirety over at Phish’s MySpace page. Even before the announcement video, however, the track was found on iTunes by eagle-eyed Phans hours, according to Glide Magazine. [...]
Props on the RollingStone shout-out.
wow- sounds like shit!
What is this song about? I just hear a bunch of generalities, and egotistic rambles. Can anyone relate to this? Where is the story? Perhaps it is part of something bigger. I hope it is.
Listened to it this morning on my drive to work, and I love it. I love how deep the bass is in the mix. I think this will explode on summer tour. It seems like an amalgam of all of Phish up to this point in time. I like the structured changes, clearly this tune was composed very intentionally with room for improv. Phish 3.0 is looking good!
[...] “I began writing this little tune for Phish — and it just kept growing and growing,” Anastasio said in the release. A video posted on the Phish site features footage of the band performing the track in the studio. The song is also streaming in its long entirety over at Phish’s MySpace page. Even before the announcement video, however, the track was found on iTunes by eagle-eyed Phans hours, according to Glide Magazine. [...]
Ok, whoever said this sounds like Terrapin Station, Cmon man!
Second it’s like a greatest Hits album rolled into one song, there are rips from Bowie, YEM, and Fluffhead, it’s uninspiring to say the least.