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Title: yuck
Review: About 4 years ago, the Pumpkins were on the threshold of becoming a really great band. Then they took a hard left into the toilet and began sounding less like a guitar rock band and more like an unbearably overwrought Nine Inch Nails clone. What the hell happened there? And why wasn't I consulted first? This record is so washed out in loud, distorted, layered, textureless noise that it's hard to listen to in one uninterrupted sitting. Songs like that have always been present on Pumpkins albums to varying degrees of success ("Bodies" was a good one from Mellon Collie), but where's the "Rocket", the "Muzzle" or the "Cherub Rock" to balance the equation?And what the hell is with that egregiously bombastic album title? Are we supposed to take that seriously? It sounds like a B sci-fi movie from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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