“Billy Corgan delivers a sprawling double album that's as frustrating as it is ambitious”
“rock heroes reinvent themselves on poppiest record to date”
“Billy Corgan reenlists the creative core of James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin for a lengthy synth-pop excursion that is clinically competent and rarely as thrilling—or thrillingly weird—as their previous work.”
“Nostalgia be damned, the band goes full electro-pop on its second reunion album”
“Although Smashing Pumpkins are no strangers to synths, they have always remained a guitar band at heart. And yet Cyr, the second album since three-quarters of their “classic” lineup reconvened in 2018 (original bassist D’arcy Wretzky is still absent, although thankfully no longer in prison for horse-related offences), finds Billy Corgan setting the controls for the heart of 1982 with a full-blown ”
