Mike Gordon - Inside In November 17, 2003 - Common Music Magazine (St. Louis) By A Dubbs Album Review - Inside In Mike Gordon, the most quiet and unassuming of the quiet unassuming group phish, has released something as sort of a slide show into his strange mind. Eerily experimental with layers and layers of sounds and melodies to be discovered by the listener. Almost as if music you would hear in a dream, many times light and floaty and never too hard. Mike uses the talents of many of his artistic friends on this album including: Bela Fleck and Futureman from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Jon Fishman, Col. Bruce Hampton and Gordon Stone just to name a few. The album opens with the song "Take me out" where the listener, or at least I, feels/felt they are underwater listening to the music through a tube. Continuing on, Soulfood Man is another song in which I particularly enjoy. While this song is quite random and strange, theres is just something about it that I totally dig. When I bought this cd I had no idea what to expect except for excellent musicianship and the use of strange metaphors and prose, I was not let down at all, the sound mixtures on this cd are soothing to the ear and seem to glide lazily out of the speakers. I recommend this cd to those of you who are particularly into eclectic stuff. You won't be dissapointed. Review © 2003 Common Music Magazine