Interview Magazine
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One giant continuous bittersweet symphony, Adore is a gentle yet intense follow up to the Pumpkins unruly and often spectacular double disc behemoth Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Light strokes of acoustic guitar, cotton swab atmospherics, and the immediacy of piano and voice take precedence over sprawling guitar heroics here. And the Pink Floyd aesthetic is replaced with a serious New order fixation on a few tracks (appels and oranjes sounds very Substance.) Losing drummer Jimmy Chamberlin freed up Billy Corgan and Co to experiment with drum machines and synthesizers, and they're surprisingly well integrated with the Pumpkins emotional guitar rock. The only truly epic number here, the eight minute beauty For martha is infinitely sadder and melancholy than anything they have done. Another soundtrack for the dewy eyed teenager in all of us.- Ray rogers