I got a surprise this week. Phish dropped a new album, Get More Down, under the moniker of Sci-Fi Soldier, which explains why I couldn't find it in Phish's catalog on Spotify.
The album comes out of their October 2021 "musical costume" show, where they played a set as Sci-Fi Soldier, a band from a couple of thousand years in the future. Relix has some details about the release.
The project was announced on Sci-Fi Solider’s social media, where they wrote, “Objectively the most important and consequential album of all time, Get More Down was recorded by the band Sci-Fi Soldier in the year 4680 and sent back through time to save planet Earth from a cataclysmic event called The Howling. Sci-Fi Soldier learned the power of music from humans who traveled deep into space using the nine cubes of cosmic reality.”
Since the Halloween show, during which Phish shared a comic book detailing their story and dressed as their alter-egos (Clueless Wallob/Trey Anastasio, Pat Malone/Page McConnell, Half-Nelson/Mike Gordon and Paulie Roots/Jon Fishman), Phish have peppered their songs throughout live shows during their tours, but the release of Get More Down comes completely as a surprise, much like the Halloween show itself.
The band has yet to acknowledge the LP’s existence.
I've only had a chance to listen through it once, so my initial opinion that it's not one of my favourite Phish albums, may change. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
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