THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: ATUM: A ROCK OPERA IN THREE ACTS Set Box (2023)

Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts is the twelfth studio album by the Smashing Pumpkins. The album was released in three separate installments of 11 songs Atum: Act One was released on November 15, 2022, Atum: Act Two was released on January 31, 2023, and Atum: Act Three was released on May 5, 2023. A physical box set consisting of all 33 songs, along with a group of 10 additional exclusive songs, was released in early May 2023.

Frontman Billy Corgan first announced his plans to release a “sequel” concept album to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) and Machina/The Machines of God (2000) in October 2020, shortly before the release of the eleventh album. band’s studio album. Cyr in November 2020.

Corgan had wanted to do it as early as 2017 or 2018, but with everything going on with the band at the time, including guitarist James Iha who was back in the band for the first time in 18 years and planning a major tour around 3/4 of the original band getting back together, he opted for the less ambitious 8-song album Shiny and Oh So Bright (2018).

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck years later and canceled much of the band’s planned tour, Corgan found himself with a lot of time on his hands and decided to revisit the concept. The album was recorded over a span of 2 years, some of them at the same time as Cyr.

Track listing:

ATUM: Act One

1. Atum
2. Butterfly Suite
3. The Good in Goodbye
4. Embracer
5. With Ado I Do
6. Hooligan
7. Steps in Time
8. Where Rain Must Fall
9. Beyond the Vale
10. Hooray!
11. The Gold Mask

ATUM: Act Two

1. Avalanche
2. Empires
3. Neophyte
4. Moss
5. Night Waves
6. Space Age
7. Every Morning
8. To the Grays
9. Beguiled
10. The Culling
11. Springtimes

ATUM: Act Three

1. Sojourner
2. That Which Animates the Spirit
3. The Canary Trainer
4. Pacer
5. In Lieu of Failure
6. Cenotaph
7. Harmageddon
8. Fireflies
9. Intergalactic
10. Spellbinding
11. Of Wings

The Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
James Iha – guitar
Jeff Schroeder – guitar
Jimmy Chamberlin – drums

Additional musicians
Katie Cole – backing vocals
Sierra Swan – backing vocals

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