Adore by Smashing Pumpkins Electro/Goth/Alt-Rock. They had to follow a couple of massive rock albums and were feeling slightly stressed about it. Instead of giving people what they wanted (which isn’t always right) Corgan decided to go down a more electro route. The problem with this is though the songs are good, they seemingly lack any organic feeling to them even though most have some sort of acoustic guitar or piano within them. The songs feel cold and seem to lack any real ‘humaness’ to them. It’s a good album, but feels slightly one dimensional. Tracks worth hearing: Ava Adore; Appels and Oranjes; To Shelia

Grade: C