Claude says:After Jimmy Chamberlin's departure and his mother's death, Billy Corgan steered the Pumpkins into something quieter and stranger — drum machines, synths, acoustic sketches instead of the distorted guitar sprawl that made them huge. Adore landed in 1998 to mixed commercial returns but later picked up a cult following for its darker, more experimental mood. You've circled back to it occasionally since 2019, most recently last fall, drawn to "Perfect," "Ava Adore," and "Once Upon a Time" — the moments where the electronic gamble and the old melodic instinct still line up.