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.
Phantogram's third album, the simply titled Three, marks the point where their music lost any traces of originality and charm and simply became more fodder for the pop music machine.
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.