Slinky Slink Like It's 1998 All Over Again

Celebrate Adore's reissue in style: throw on your best black frock 

and slink like it's going out of style.

Ride On

 

The Smashing Pumpkins-- Oceania

I am shockingly not as disappointed in Oceania as I thought I'd be.  The first track ("Quasar") is six kinds of grungy, dirty 90's-style Pumpkins rock--stupid lyrics included.  And I liked it--quite a bit in fact.  But there are only one or two other songs I could get behind, and the album as a whole was quickly overwhelmed by Billy Corgan's lyrical pretension and whiny love songs. It's still better than Zeitgeist, though--and Machina for that matter.  

(But I'd like to add that I'm kinda creeped out by the new line-up's physical resemblance to the band circa 1995.)