Phish: Lawn Boy June 20, 1991 - CMJ Music by Staff Album Review - Lawn Boy Phish has been setting the hills of their native Vermont aphlame since their inception in 1983 with their phiery hybrid sound. A little bit of jazz, a little bit of country, a little bit of Zappa and a little bit of the Gratephul Dead are combined into a heady, yet relaxed alliance of styles and moods. All phour members have studied their instruments since early ages, with an emphasis on jazz harmonies and compositions. Repeated listenings make it even that more diphicult to peg this record, as something else inevitably pops up, whether it's a piano phrase that wasn't noticed bephore, or a jazz-like rhythm change that just caught you in mid-stream, or maybe even yet another line of the extremely phrolic-some lyrics phinally sinking in. Whatever it is, Lawn Boy, Phish's debut album, ophers much phor the listener with eclectic tastes, and does a good job in satisphying the appetite of those hungry phor several courses instead of just the dessert menu. We just wish we could hear more of the vacuum cleaned Gold phishes: the epic guitar jams of "Reba" and "Run Like An Antelope," "The Squirming Coil" and "Bathtub Gin." © 1978-1999 College Media, Inc.