Title: The Pumpkin's Musical Mastermind Slips into Mediocrity
Product review: The Smashing Pumpkins were one the greatest alt-rock bands of the 1990's, entwining the angry energy of grunge with the melodrama and "listenablility" if you will, of alternative, boosted by Coran's underrated Hendrix-influenced guitar and Chamberlain's masterful drumming. When Corgan formed Zwan, he lost that Nirvanaeque edge that had the power behind the music. Stil left was the good music with good musicians to back it up, making them a mild success until group dissent and band politics broke them apart. But with Corgan embarking on a highly predicted/expected solo career, he lost the alt-rock edge in deference to an equivocal, electronic sound, and with half of the great musical talent gone (Chamberlain), the album is but a stale ghost of the powerful synergy Corgan had created with the Pumpkins. All in all an disappointment, though a forseeable and expected dissapointment.
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