Thinking outside the box and inside the bubble January 9, 2003 - Montreal Gazette By Mark Lepage Album Review - Round Room Vermont's favourite jam band returns with an album dedicated to the unconventional. A "Round Room" has no walls (goes the thinking) and is therefore more freeing, less enclosing than a boring old cube. Strangely, the mood is rainy-day wistful in Anything But Me and Friday (strangely for a "comeback" album, anyway), and in the perfect little Vermont/Quebec winter ode Seven Below. Trey Anastasio is their rock guy, so he gets roadhousey in 46 Days. However, there are various ways to be conventional, and the jam-band convention insists that songs be subordinate to the players' need to pull long taffy solos out of whatever instrument they happen to have mastered. Sometimes, the limitations of the cube are entirely the point.