Thee Physical

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]

Thee Physical
Studio album by Pictureplane
Released	July 19, 2011 (2011-07-19)
Studio	Rhinoceropolis, Denver, Colorado
Genre	Electronic
Length	45:30
Label	Lovepump United Records
Producer	Travis Egedy, Jupiter Keyes, Mookie Singerman
Pictureplane chronology
Dark Rift (2009) Thee Physical (2011) Technomancer (2015)
Singles from Thee Physical
"Real Is a Feeling" Released: May 17, 2011[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
The A.V. Club	B+[9]
CMJ	favorable[10]
Consequence of Sound	C+[11]
Pitchfork	7.0/10[12]
PopMatters	[13]
Resident Advisor	3.5/5[14]
Spin	mixed[15]
The Washington Post	favorable[16]

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
• Jupiter Keyes – co-production, mixing
• Mookie Singerman – additional production (4, 10)
• Yasmine Kittles – vocals (1), backing vocals (8, 10)
• Lauren Devine – hand fashion design
• Marco Rosso – hand photography