Trey Anastasio, by Trey Anastasio May 10, 2002 - Slate By B.M.L. Album Review - Trey Anastasio Reviewers are shocked to find that they like this solo effort from the Phish guitarist. "Trey Anastasio is, against the odds, a pretty rad album," says Spin's Will Hermes. The album's best features seem to be its focus--"closely packed with urgent horn breaks and friendly guitar solos, Anastasio's new songs are less diffuse than his old roomy improv workouts" (Marc Weingarten, Entertainment Weekly)--and a "supertight" eight-piece band (Arion Berger, Rolling Stone) that creates "an ebullient musical Mardi Gras" (Weingarten) in which Anastasio's "juicy string-bending is just one flavor among many" (Hermes). While the record will almost certainly please Phish fans, Berger says it "may also entrance dabblers whose only contact with Phish is their incarnation as a Ben and Jerry's ice-cream flavor."