Yet more garagey psych pop from Detroit (home of Outrageous Cherry, the Volebeats, the White Stripes, etc.), They Come in Threes is a cheerfully inscrutable bunch from their name on down. Mixing classic pop harmonies with twisty melodies, oddball lyrics and arrangements heavy on the vintage analogue synthesizers, They Come in Threes creates a funhouse-mirror version of classic British-style pop, like Syd Barrett backed by 10cc. They Come in Threes started with singer/songwriter Chris McInnis, who recorded a bedroom tape of his own songs in 1997. McInnis formed a band with his friends Roe Peterhans (bass) and Andy Kemp (drums). (Although the group's initial lineup was a trio, McInnis claims the derivation of the band's unusual name is the folk wisdom that "bad things come in threes.") Playing their first gig on the night Detroit won their first Stanley Cup in over 40 years, They Come in Threes built a local following over the next couple of years. In the process, they gained guitarist Mark Craven and Peterhans moved to synthesizer, with Brandon White taking over the bass position. Their self-released debut single, "Where Rev Lived" backed with "Too Far to the East," came out in the summer of 1999, just as Kemp was leaving the band, replaced first by Billy West and then by Ryan Pritts. Bad luck hit They Come in Threes in 2000, when local indie Spectactor Records folded just as they were set to release the group's debut CD, Blindsided Part One. The group sat on the tapes for most of a year, but Los Angeles indie Fall of Rome Records finally released the disc in the summer of 2001. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide