Prior to the release of their latest album Big Boat, the members of Phish sat down with Relix for an extensive cover story to be featured in the October_November issue.

Read an excerpt from the piece below.

“What changed, starting in 2009, is this clarity of vision and this feeling that it was a precious gift that the four of us met,” Anastasio says. “It took a couple of years after that for things to get rolling completely, but we’ve realized how important this is for everyone—the way that the primary relationship between the four of us is nurtured and the way that ripples out into the rest of our families and the community. We communicate. The four of us are texting many times a day.”

Read the feature in full here.