The Smashing Pumpkins twelfth studio album; a three-act rock opera album titled ATUM (pronounced Autumn). ATUM will feature 33-tracks, and is the sequel to 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/Machine of God. ATUM was written and produced by Billy Corgan over the past 4 years. ATUM is a rock opera presented in three acts by inimitable American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. The album tells an epic interplanetary story set in the not-too-distant future, though the songs themselves respectively stand on their own in the Pumpkins pantheon. This is the final installment in a concept album trilogy, which began with 1995’s Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness and then continued with 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God. The album features three original members of the band-William Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin-as well as longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder. Corgan had been developing the idea for the rock opera for years, and the pandemic gave him the time off the road to meticulously complete it in the grandiose way he had intended. When The Smashing Pumpkins first emerged out of Chicago in 1988, the world had never heard a band quite like them. They spun together rock, pop, shoe-gaze, metal, goth, psychedelia, and electronic into a kaleidoscope of saccharine melodies, fuzzy distortion, bombastic orchestration, incendiary fretwork, eloquent songcraft, and unshakable hooks. Upon their formation, their sound was different, iconoclastic, and wholly new-and it still is today. As a result, they’ve sold over 30 million albums worldwide and collected two GRAMMY Awards, two MTV VMAs, and an American Music Award. Their catalog is highlighted by the platinum Gish [1991], the quadruple-platinum Siamese Dream [1993], diamond-certified Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995], platinum Adore [1998], and gold Machina/The Machines of God [2000]. In 2018, they embarked on one of their most successful tours ever, the Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour, followed by SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN. Meanwhile, 2020 saw the release of the band’s eleventh full-length and latest double album, CYR.

TRACKLIST:

– Disc 1 –
1Disc: 1
2Atum
3Butterfly Suite
4The Good in Goodbye
5Embracer
6With Ado I Do
7Hooligan
8Steps in Time
9Where Rain Must Fall
10Beyond the Vale
11Hooray!
12The Gold Mask
– Disc 2 –
1Avalanche
2Empires
3Neophyte
4Moss
5Night Waves
6Space Age
7Every Morning
8To the Grays
9Beguiled
10The Culling
11Springtimes
– Disc 3 –
1Sojourner
2That Which Animates the Spirit
3The Canary Trainer
4Pacer
5In Lieu of Failure
6Cenotaph
7Harmageddon
8Fireflies
9Intergalactic
10Spellbinding
11Of Wings

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