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Oct 6, 2016Three underwhelms from beginning to end.
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Nov 3, 2016Not without failings, such as the power ballad "Destroyer," the lower points temper the album's explosiveness.
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Oct 10, 2016Three is a Phantogram record in that it’s a well-crafted release, but it lacks the originality Phantogram prided themselves on.
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Sep 30, 2016Tracks such as ‘Answer’ contain more light, pop-ridden sensibilities, yet it’s with the grittier, heavier-sounding choruses where Phantogram are at their best.
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Oct 5, 2016Three's high points come when some of the pop veneer is pulled back to let more raw, real feeling through. Overall, it's a solid record that should draw a wider audience to Phantogram's music.
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Oct 24, 2016Three wears its scars where they’re visible, at times this makes for an uncomfortable and uneven listen, but when it clicks, they’re unstoppable.
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Oct 7, 2016The rest of the album’s expansive epics are built on a shaky foundations, with too many songs that contain too many concepts for their own good.
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Oct 6, 2016Flaws and all, Three is where Phantogram has stepped up, projecting themselves as chart-conquering hedonistic demigods despite their lyrics conveying an absolute crippling unhappiness.
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Oct 14, 2016Three is perhaps Phantogram’s most incisive record yet, sustaining a very solid and concrete idea of what kind of pop it wants to promote.
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Oct 3, 2016Three represents only an incremental progression, not the seismic shift of Voices, but it demonstrates the duo's ability to transform darkness into light, taking personal tragedy and shaping it into professional growth.
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Sep 30, 2016Phantogram have always been able to craft sleek, cerebral tunes, but it hasn't always been clear that they were having a blast doing it--until now.
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Sep 30, 2016Phantogram's fix and mend methods, and above average song craft, are admirable and compelling. An unexpected treat.
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Sep 30, 2016An edgy, but earnest, collection of pulsing indie tropes.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 33
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Mixed: 5 out of 33
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Negative: 5 out of 33
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