Last yr, Smashing Pumpkins introduced a characteristically bold new album, ATUM: A Rock Opera In Three Acts. They shared the primary act from it again in November, which was preceded by the one “Beguiled.” “Beguiled” truly seems in act two of ATUM, which drops in the present day and contains 10 different new tracks.
“When I made Cyr, it was like, ‘Okay, let’s do what we used to do,’ which is do a real deep dive and see what we come up with,” Billy Corgan mentioned in a current interview with Apple Music. “And I was very focused at that time on … not leaning on what we were known for but trying to find something new to say.”
“Then after I found something new to say on Cyr, then it made sense to me to put the two pieces of what we’re known for, and then what we found in recent times together, and that’s where ATUM comes out of,” Corgan continued. “It’s hard to explain, but the band always did well combining guitar rock with whatever we were on about at any given time.”
Listen to ATUM – Act Two beneath.
ATUM is out in full on 4/21 by way of Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers.