The Pumpkins deepest album (Machina / The Machines Of God - Smashing Pumpkins)

Member Name: oildrum

Product:	Machina / The Machines Of God - Smashing Pumpkins
Date:	03/06/09 (1 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: very well composed and great production

Disadvantages: not a huge variation

Machina / The Machines Of God is an increedilbly underrated album. Probably the most inventive and experimental album The Smashing Pumpkins have ever produced, but also one of the most offbeat.
It starts with a gunshot with 'The Everlasting Gaze', the thumping lead single with a crunchy baseline and an epic chorus that is similar to an evolved 'Zero'.
'Stand inside you're love' is a beautiful song that slowly builds up to a stunning crescendo, full of complex strings and drum beats.
Track 6 'Try Try Try' is a stunningly simple track that makes perfect use of its instruments and vox.
Melodically this album is upbeat and almost sentimental without being too saccharine.
Songs such as 'The Crying Tree of Mercury' use slow plodding compositions but are arranged in a way that turns them into unique and unconventional recordings, whilst others like 'Heavy Metal Machine' create grinding melodies that are still delicate and nonabrasive.
A very thoughtful and carefully constructed album.

Summary: A well thought out and beautifully realised album