To review the review for a second, it’s not great. You apparently feel that just about any slower paced more contemplative phish song - e.g. the gorgeous ballads “life beyond the dream” and “strange design” - are somehow obviously not good, bummers.

To each their own of course, but I deeply disagree with you there - those songs bring the heart and soul to match the fire and fury of the big ragers and psychedelic jams, just as similarly paced, reflective songs did for the Grateful Dead.

Not getting that feels like missing a key part of the phish journey, to me, and I am really sick of the derision for these kinds of songs - especially in a show that had plenty of soaring, adventurous, dark and outer space vibes too.

Balance, my friend. Balance is good.