With their 2010 debut, Eyelid Movies, New York duo Phantogram created a dirty, late-night groove that echoed Portishead’s far-off trip-hop. But on their follow-up, Voices, Phantogram expanded their pop sound and lost a bit of grit. Now, after a high-profile collaboration with Outkast’s Big Boi (together known as Big Grams), the act returns with Three, a record that expertly balances the explosive energy of modern pop with the grime and twitch of their early work. First single “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” blasts out of the gate with a jump-rope rhythm shot through by an imposing synthesizer melody. While Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter trade vocals on many of these songs, only the former makes the lyrics sting; Barthel’s pleading, “Nothing is fun, not like before… Used to take one, now it takes four” is the track’s sinister chorus, delivered with a no-one-gets-out-alive grin. The pounding “Destroyer” marches forward like soldiers on the attack; “Cruel World” lurches with a heavy, hip-hop lean. And lines like, “No one’s gonna touch you, no one’s gonna look at you the way that I do,” from the strobe-lit, spring-loaded “You’re Mine,” will squirm in your head for days. The third time out, Phantogram nails it.