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Title: An appropriate end for the Smashing Pumpkins
Review: Machina is not an easy listen, as much of the Pumpkins' music isn't. Some songs ("The Everlasting Gaze", "Stand Inside Your Love", and "Try, Try, Try") have a radio-play appeal, while most of the album is very complex and rather strange, to say the least. But beneath all the obscurity, the Pumpkins' artsy, unorthodox approach to rock is still there, and though Machina begins to lag towards the end, it is still a memorable album. It is not a masterpiece a la Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but it is an appropriate end to the Pumpkins' grand, bizarre journey through alternative rock.
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