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Originally Posted by fuzzyroes
That's actually a pretty spot-on review from Pitchfork.
"That focus can be a revelation for an iconic presence like Cash or Neil Diamond, but Corgan’s presence has never been his draw. Smashing Pumpkins’ hook was the spectacle—the guitars, the fury, the sensory wonder—not the adenoidal outcast at the center of it all"
"And so Ogilala holes up listeners for 40 drumless minutes in close proximity to a voice that even diehards can only tolerate so much of. “Take me as I am,” Corgan sings over strummed guitars and faint washes of synths on “The Spaniards,” one of the record’s many confessional songs that doesn’t actually confess anything. "
That's one of my points of contention with the album too. It's like the albums supposed to be some deep statement, but he's not really saying much of anything.
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yeah the album isn't deep whatsoever, i dont think anyone on here was arguing that it is. compared to monuments though it's like the atlantic ocean