Product Description
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1998 album from the Alt-Rock heroes led by singer, songwriter
and guitarist Billy Corgan.
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With Adore, Smashing Pumpkins return to the forefront of rock to
do a dance with a new partner. Trading white-noise vocals and
guitars for caramel crooning and dense synthesizers, frontman
Billy Corgan drives bandmates James Iha and D'Arcy to a lush
aural plateau. The darkness is still there--evidenced in the
techno throb of the single "Ava Adore"--but the Pumpkins also
tinker with Lennonesque lullabyes ("Behold! The Night Mare"),
midtempo electronica ("Appels and Oranjes"), and tender calliope
music ("Once Upon a Time"). Smartly, Corgan rarely upstages the
watery sounds going on behind him; the trademark midsong blowouts
are almost completely absent. Adore will strike your ears and
heart in a way you didn't think the Smashing Pumpkins could.
--Jason Josephes
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Review
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Adore is a late-night album, a headphones album, one designed to
be listened to alone rather than in the mosh pit. It demands
close attention to the bloom and scent of its mix, so that it
doesnt turn into floral wallpaper.
The problem is that the albums melodies arent up to that
standard, and without the oomph of a real band behind them, they
need to be. The omnipresent, obsessively nuanced production
details (strings, subtle vocal harmonies, delectable guitar tone)
candy everything up, but most of the time theres not much inside
these arrangements except air. And the lyrics are generally on
the wrong side of the line between deeply personal and deeply
meaningless.... -- Spin
In these reflective settings, Corgan sifts through relationships
broken by alienation, death, and other mysteries, searching for
strength and purpose to help make sense of a disordered but
essentially appealing world.
As personal as all this is, Adore is rarely .... When
Corgan heaves a sigh, he wants it to be a sigh that can shake the
world, and with Adore, he makes a strong case for his epic brand
of introspection. -- The Los Angeles Times
Instead of stadium-size bombast, Adore dials down the volume to
lullaby level. Instead of rat-in-a-cage rage, the new album
overflows with heart valentines. -- Rolling Stone
The intimacy and restraint of "To Sheila" set the tone for the
most low-key album the Pumpkins have ever made. Everything, from
the tempos to the rhythms to Corgan's wail, has been taken down a
notch. Ballads and mid-tempo songs prevail, many of them
exceedingly delicate and pretty, nudged along by ticktocking drum
machines and fragile pianos. The album should carry a new style
of advisory sticker: "Warning: Explicitly Lyrical...."
None of this means either Corgan or his fellow Pumpkins have
mellowed. Corgan barely raises his voice to the angsty caterwaul
that makes people either love him or hate him, but his voice and
lyrics remain unsettled, and unsettling. Pretty on the outside,
the album is dark and obsessive beneath; let's call it
passive-aggressive rock. -- Entertainment Weekly
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