Three is where Phantogram has stepped up, projecting themselves as chart-conquering hedonistic demigods despite their lyrics conveying an absolute crippling unhappiness. This all creates a fascinating tension that helps drive Three farther than their other efforts, making Phantogram a name now associated with one of the more memorable pop documents to come out this year.<br/><br/>Three serves as a progression for a duo that takes vivid inner turmoil and projects it outward. Their debut, Eyelid Movies, highlighted the illusory nature of human perception and the primal impulses that can make us do crazy things, described on that album through both the loneliness of isolation and imagined relief of burial. Their follow-up, Voices, expanded on these personal battles by making their manifestations more frenzied and surreal, cloaked in the metaphor of speaking in tongues or howling at the moon. On Three, there's no more inner conflict, as the dark side has won.
A1 | Funeral Pyre | 4:05 |
A2 | Same Old Blues | 3:31 |
A3 | You Don't Get Me High Anymore | 3:39 |
A4 | Cruel World | 2:57 |
A5 | Barking Dog | 3:02 |
B1 | You're Mine | 2:51 |
B2 | Answer | 3:51 |
B3 | Run Run Blood | 4:59 |
B4 | Destroyer | 4:17 |
B5 | Calling All | 3:41 |