The legendary Smashing Pumpkins have dropped their 11th studio album Cyr, a monster 20-track double record that serves as the second part to their conceptual Shiny and Oh So Bright series.
This new record was produced by vocalist Billy Corgan himself, who told the LA Times:
"I was trying to bring myself into modernity. I got Logic (software), I got some beats going, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I started to feel like the Luddite who couldn’t evolve. But then I realized that when I first heard Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy and Joy Division, they were making very modern music by using the technology that they had at hand. So I had to get inside the choices that they made."
Cyr also has the classic Pumpkins lineup intact with Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain and Jeff Schroeder on board, who reunited for the first Shiny and Oh So Bright volume back in 2018.
There's more of an experimental, synth-laden sound at play here compared to their signature alt-rock style, but it's still distinctly Pumpkins underneath!
The Smashing Pumpkins - 'Cyr' Tracklisting:
01 - The Colour Of Love
02 - Confessions Of A Dopamine Addict
03 - Cyr
04 - Dulcet In E
05 - Wrath
06 - Ramona
07 - Anno Satana
08 - Birch Grove
09 - Wyttch
10 - Starrcraft
11 - Purple Blood
12 - Save Your Tears
13 - Telegenix
14 - Black Forest, Black Hills
15 - Adrennalynne
16 - Haunted
17 - The Hidden Sun
18 - Schaudenfreud
19 - Tyger, Tyger
20 - Minerva
Listen to The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Cyr' now.
