Shiny Toy Guns I I I

The road that led Shiny Toy Guns into the abyss — and now, triumphantly, back from it — was fraught with peril, full of steep grades, twists, potholes, detours and dead ends. That the Los Angeles-based quartet has emerged firing on all cylinders is testimony not only to its members’ artistic vision but to their personal renaissance.

“III,” the new album that reunites the original four members whose pioneering synth-pop and DIY ethic made Shiny Toy Guns worldwide sensations so many miles ago, is symbolic of that journey. On “III,” their first album in almost four years, the band refines its signature electronic sound with a collection of exuberant, intensely personal songs about life, love, loss and redemption.

To create them, though, the foursome — Carah Faye (vocals), Chad Petree (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Dawson (synth, bass) and Mikey Martin (drums) — was forced to heal the fissures that began showing even as they were sharing their Grammy-nominated debut, “We Are Pilots” (2006), to hungry audiences.

1. Somewhere To Hide
2. Waiting Alone
3. Carrie
4. If I Lost You
5. Speaking Japanese
6. Mercy
7. Wait For Me
8. Fading Listening
9. The Sun
10. e v a y
11. Take Me Back To Where I Was