Lillywhite: Joy "best Phish album ever"

According to Rolling Stone, Phish has recently announced that the name of their comeback album will be Joy. The album will be ten songs long and was produced by Steve Lillywhite (back from 1996’s Billy Breathes). Trey Anastasio told Rolling Stone that Joy “feels more like a live record than a lot of our live records.” Phish has already released a few of their tracks on the new album. Phish introduced both “Kill Devil Falls” and “Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan” at Bonnaroo this year to an ecstatic crowd. The band also released the epic 13-minute “Time Turns Elastic” (which took 278 takes to get right) last month as a digital download. Anastasio has said that many of the lyrics on the new album stem from his struggles with drugs and his arrest for possession in 2006. Joy’s title track was also written when Anastasio’s sister was struggling with her fight against cancer, which she sadly lost in April. Still, Lillywhite calls Joy “the best Phish album ever,” and Anastasio insists that the album “is affirming with a dose of reality.” The album is set to come out later this month. Here are the track listings, released yesterday:

1. Twenty Years Later

2. Backwards Down the Number Line

3. Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan

4. Light

5. Joy

6. Sugar Shack

7. Ocelot

8. Kill Devil Falls

9. I’ve Been Around

10. Time Turns Elastic

-Laurie Moot

Currently listening to: "Heavy Things," by Phish

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