Three
The electro-pop duo’s third LP is rooted in heartbreak. Inspired in part by the loss of band member Sarah Barthel’s sister, *Three* is decidedly heavy—from its sonics to its subject matter. While “Funeral Pyre” finds Josh Carter snake an elegant guitar line through tar-like production, the thunderous “Run Run Blood” sees Barthel ask a pressing question: “Does anybody need to breathe?”
As Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter inch toward the mainstream, their plaintive and gloomy* Three* feels less like an album and more like postcards from the eye of an emotional hurricane.
New York-based electronic pop duo's third album is their most enjoyable record to date, and it sounds like they had a ball putting it together.
Phantogram are at their best when blasting out gritty, heavy choruses - ‘Three’ has them in spades.
Three is different than Phantogram's previous releases. The hip-hop-influenced electro-pop duo have clearly grown a bit more comfortable wit...
A few minutes into the latest Phantogram record and you would be forgiven for expecting nothing more than a collection of mundane dark electronica.
Three serves as a progression for a duo that takes vivid inner turmoil and projects it outward.
'Three' by Phantogram, album review by Jake Fox. The full-length comes out on October 7th via Republic. Phantogram, play October 8th in Victoria, BC.