ATUM - The Smashing Pumpkins [CD]

'ATUM' is a rock opera presented in three acts by inimitable American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. The album tells an epic interplanetary story set in the not-too-distant future, though the songs themselves respectively stand on their own in the Pumpkins pantheon. This is the final instalment in a concept album trilogy, which began with 1995's 'Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness' and then continued with 2000's 'Machina/The Machines of God'. The album features three original members of the band - William Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin - as well as long-time guitarist Jeff Schroeder. Corgan had been developing the idea for the rock opera for years, and the pandemic gave him the time off the road to meticulously complete it in the grandiose way he had intended.

Disc 1
1. Atum - The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Butterfly Suite - The Smashing Pumpkins
3. The Good in Goodbye - The Smashing Pumpkins
4. EMBRACER - The Smashing Pumpkins
5. With Ado I Do - The Smashing Pumpkins
6. Hooligan - The Smashing Pumpkins
7. Steps in Time - The Smashing Pumpkins
8. Where Rain Must Fall - The Smashing Pumpkins
9. Beyond the Vale - The Smashing Pumpkins
10. Hooray! - The Smashing Pumpkins
11. The Gold Mask - The Smashing Pumpkins
Disc 2
1. Avalanche - The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Empires - The Smashing Pumpkins
3. Neophyte - The Smashing Pumpkins
4. Moss - The Smashing Pumpkins
5. Night Waves - The Smashing Pumpkins
6. Space Age - The Smashing Pumpkins
7. Every Morning - The Smashing Pumpkins
8. To the Grays - The Smashing Pumpkins
9. Beguiled - The Smashing Pumpkins
10. The Culling - The Smashing Pumpkins
11. Springtimes - The Smashing Pumpkins
Disc 3
1. Sojourner - The Smashing Pumpkins
2. That Which Animates the Spirit - The Smashing Pumpkins
3. The Canary Trainer - The Smashing Pumpkins
4. Pacer - The Smashing Pumpkins
5. In Lieu of Failure - The Smashing Pumpkins
6. Cenotaph - The Smashing Pumpkins
7. Harmageddon - The Smashing Pumpkins
8. Fireflies - The Smashing Pumpkins
9. Intergalactic - The Smashing Pumpkins
10. Spellbinding - The Smashing Pumpkins
11. Of Wings - The Smashing Pumpkins