People Magazine
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FOLLOWING THE LOUD AND FURIOUS SONIC BLAST THEY SERVED UP ON 1995'S MELLON cOLLIE AND THE iNFINITE sADNESS, THE cHICAGO BASED PUMPKINS SEEM SHOCKINGLY QUIET ON THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM. fILLED WITH MINOR KEY MELODIES AND ONLY RARE BURSTS FROM THE GUITAR OF TOP pUMPKIN bILLY cORGAN AND JAMES iHA, aDORE PRECEDES AT A DIRGE LIKE PACE AS cORGAN OFFERS HIS MEDITATIONS ON LOSS,LOVE,OBSESSION AND DEATH. (oNE TRACK "fOR mARTHA", IS A EULOGY FOR HIS MOTHER WHO DIED OF CANCER LAST YEAR.) wITH ONE SOMETIME BAND MATE LOST TO A HEROIN OVERDOSE IN 1996 (TOUR KEYBOARDIST jONATHAN mELVOIN) AND DRUMMER jIMMY cHAMBERLIN NOW GONE FROM THE GROUP BECAUSE OF HIS OWN DRUG WOES, cORGAN iHA AND wRETSKY SEEM TO BE IN SEARCH OF PERSONAL RECOVERY HERE, AND THEIR STARK EMOTIONAL MUSIC MAKES FOR UNEASY BUT ULTIMATELY REWARDING LISTENING. - sd bOTTOM