Smashing Pumpkins - Atum (3xCD)

New Three-Act Rock Opera Serves as the Final Installment in a Concept Trilogy Following 1995's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000's Machina/The Machines of God.

The Smashing Pumpkins return with their highly anticipated twelfth studio album; a three-act rock opera entitled ATUM (pronounced Autumn). 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. Featuring 33-tracks, ATUM is the final installment in a concept album trilogy, which began with 1995's Mellon Collie 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 COVID-19 pandemic gave him the time off the road to meticulously complete it in the grandiose way he had intended.


Tracklist

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