Since the reunion of The Smashing Pumpkins’ central founding trio – Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin – the band have been positively prolific, traversing tentative first forays, unexpected creative detours and epic indulgences. Nothing has been simple or obvious, but that’s what we want, isn’t it? Or, at least, it’s what we should expect. In 2018, we had the Rick Rubin-produced Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1, the further volumes of which have yet to be realised, and likely never will be. With Billy subsequently reneging on that record’s ‘album’ status, given that its eight tracks were made in a way quite unlike any other SP offering, they released 2020’s Cyr, hastily declared their first reunion album proper, with its synth-pop stylings sounding more in tune wi...
