A Picture of Nectar August 1, 1992 - Q4 Music Magazine (UK) by Jonathan Romney Album Review - Picture of Nectar Phish (From Vermont) do hail from that leafy state, which is clearly too small to contain their lofty ambitions. A four-piece, they have the same sort of eclectic hippy humour as Camper Van Beethoven, but make more of a meal of things, diffusing the effect in the process. Llama launches into a morass of soloing - fusion guitar and Blue Note organ - before the shape of the song is established. A bit of funk, a bit of ska, a bit of metal are all piled into the mincer, impressing with prowess but without asserting their identity. The closest comparison is with those early '70s "progressive" bands - Caravan and their ilk - who used dada humour to distract attention from the deadly studiousness of their music. Turn your back for a second, and Phish will be lost in a forest of jamming. Funnily enough, this provides the record's best passage, the manic coda of Tweezer.