Jam bands are generally known for taking all their chances onstage, but the STRING CHEESE INCIDENT are turning into an inventive and ambitious recording act, too. After seriously upending their bluegrass-rooted hippie-rock image with 2001's dance oriented The String Cheese Remix Project, the Colorado quintet brought in Orb producer (and former Killing Joke bassist) Youth to twiddle knobs on their latest album, Untying The Not. With its kaleidoscopic approach to sound and wide-ranging embrace of styles, the music manages to be both trippy and tuneful, taking on a Pink Floydian cast, from the spacey sax solo on "Looking Glass" to the rollicking Celtic fiddle in the trance-spiked "Valley of the Jig". A compelling listen from start to finish, the addition of a big-time producer with radical ideas has turned this into a psychedelic masterwork. This is SCI?s Dark Side Of The Moon, or Aoxomoxoa, or Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld. In addition to the Youth connection, there is a strong Grateful Dead connection as John Perry Barlow cowrites two songs and Carolyn ?Mountain Girl? Garcia provides a great spoken word piece as part of the aforementioned suite of songs. It is by far the best String Cheese Incident album, and an enormous step forward for them as a studio band.
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