Claude says:Billy Corgan recorded this second Pumpkins album in Georgia while battling writer's block and suicidal depression, the whole band fraying under label pressure and personal chaos, yet the sessions somehow yielded a four-million-selling fusion of shoegaze shimmer and arena-rock heft that made them inescapable in '93. You came to it in mid-2012, nineteen years after release, and it's stuck ever since — "Disarm" and "Today" are the anchors, but you've also worn grooves into "Cherub Rock" and the quieter "Luna" across multiple remasters.