Phish's final studio effort flounders June 15, 2004 - USA Today By Edna Gundersen Album Review - Undermind On its swan song, the jam band's noodling finally jells into something resembling intact songs. First single The Connection almost connects all the dots from harmonies and emotional heft to disciplined rhythms and melodic structure. But even at its most earnest and engaging, Phish's 12th studio album feels vague and unfinished and falls short of the idiosyncratic and cozy music served up by its prototype, the Grateful Dead. Despite some deft production by Tchad Blake, the quartet repeatedly relapses into unfocused rambling, raising enough asymmetric clatter in A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing to turn Phish's last splash into a gray wail. Review © 2004 USA Today