Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 475 (2020-12-04)

CYR

Smashing Pumpkins

CYR might be only the Smashing Pumpkins’
second studio album since the band’s original
lineup reformed, but this is no “business as
usual” for the one-time art rockers. The new
album hews much closer to synth-driven
goth-pop as the boys infuse electronic
influences into their sound.

FIVE FACTS:

1. This is the Smashing Pumpkins’ 11th studio
   album and their first since SHINY AND OH SO
   BRIGHT, VOL. 1 two years prior.


2. The new album was “the end result of
   going super deep and trying to evolve
   with what we were capable of doing in the
   21st century,” frontman Billy Corgan told
   Apple Music.


3. Corgan previously experimented with
   electronic music on the Pumpkins’ 1998
   album Adore and his 2005 solo album
   TheFutureEmbrace.


4. Appropriately, the chilling track “Wyttch”
   from the new album was released as a single
   just before Halloween.


5. “I’ve been banging the drum for a few years
   that the band has a future as a creative unit,
   not as a touring greatest-hits thing,” Corgan
   has said in justification of the Pumpkins’
   experimental streak.

Genre: Alternative

Released: Nov 27, 2020

20 Songs

Price: $18.99

137 Ratings