6.2
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#47,182
All Time
4
Tracks
““I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams,” wrote Billy Corgan in a full-page ad in his hometown’s Chiacgo Tribute in 2005, declaring his plans to ‘renew’ the Smashing Pumpkins. After the alt-rock anti-heroes disbanded in 2000, Corgan’s dabblings with the technicolour Zwan and the electro-shoegaze of debut solo album ‘TheFutureEmbrace’ had clearly not satisfied the dizzying heights of game”
“Smashing Pumpkins present a comeback album of surprising clarity”
“With a deliciously pretentious title, Shiny And Oh So Bright vol. 1/LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., Billy Corgan and company (Pumpkins co-founders James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin, as well as longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder) are all back together, for the first time since 2000’s Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music. Corgan has continued to put out music under the Pumpkins moniker sin”
“Set against years of controversy, acrimony and, more recently, telenovela levels of social media bickering, The Smashing Pumpkins (almost original) return is a diplomatic miracle. Lining up with everyone except embattled founding bassist D’Arcy Wretzky, Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin face the usual questions about reuniting for an album 18 years after the last one. It’s the conjectu”
“The legends of ’90s alt-rock have reunited only to bring this puzzling, indecisive husk of an album into the world.”
