Smashing Pumpkins | ATUM | 3CD 285

'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 instalment 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 long-time 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.

TRACKLIST

DISC 1

1. Atum
2. Butterfly Suite
3. The Good in Goodbye
4. EMBRACER
5. With Ado I Do
6. Hooligan
7. Steps in Time
8. Where Rain Must Fall
9. Beyond the Vale
10. Hooray!
11. The Gold Mask

DISC 2

1. Avalanche
2. Empires
3. Neophyte
4. Moss
5. Night Waves
6. Space Age
7. Every Morning
8. To the Grays
9. Beguiled
10. The Culling
11. Springtimes

DISC 3

1. Sojourner
2. That Which Animates the Spirit
3. The Canary Trainer
4. Pacer
5. In Lieu of Failure
6. Cenotaph
7. Harmageddon
8. Fireflies
9. Intergalactic
10. Spellbinding
11. Of Wings