Thee Physical is a studio album by American electronic musician Pictureplane. It was released by Lovepump United Records on July 19, 2011.[2] Music videos were created for "Real Is a Feeling",[3] "Post Physical",[4] "Black Nails",[5] and "Negative Slave".[6]
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Thee Physical received an average score of 73, based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7]
Kate Shapiro of CMJ said, "Pictureplane's Travis Egedy has always been one for fist-pumping, electronic opuses, but Thee Physical, with its exploration of gender and sexuality, marks a departure from the big, electronic sound and a move to, well, damn good pop songs."[10] Matt James of PopMatters gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying: "despite some desperately un-sexy, clumsy faux-pas in the introduction, Thee Physical does ultimately deliver a gratifyingly memorable evening and is ripe for the plucking."[13] David Malitz of The Washington Post called it "Pictureplane's most professional collection of songs to date."[16]
Stereogum placed it at number 28 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2011" list.[17]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Body Mod"
3:58
2.
"Black Nails"
4:03
3.
"Sex Mechanism"
3:08
4.
"Touching Transform"
4:43
5.
"Post Physical"
4:16
6.
"Techno Fetish"
4:00
7.
"Real Is a Feeling"
4:34
8.
"Trancegender"
4:16
9.
"Negative Slave"
3:22
10.
"Breath Work"
4:09
11.
"Thee Power Hand"
5:01
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Travis Egedy – production, recording, artwork, layout, hand fashion design