Smashing Pumpkins: Oceania

• Album: Oceania
• Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
• Release date: Jun. 20, 2012
• Download: Quasar, Pinwheels, Oceania, Panopticon, My Love Is Winter

The current lineup bears no resemblance to the original, save for founder Billy Corgan, the engimatic visionary whose creative engines are roaring with an intensity and creative pluck unmatched since his mid-'90s classics. On this 13-track continuation of his 44-song Teargarden by Kaleidyscope series, Corgan and crew unveil a battering rock assault on Quasar and a glorious electro-acoustic glide in Pinwheels before settling into the title track's nine-minute triptych of layered bliss.

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