![]() ![]() Written and recorded by Coombes in his gloriously ramshackle Oxfordshire outhouse Studio, he has emerged with the best work of his illustrious career. It’s a record of feeling, an album that captures the ups and downs of modern life and all the small print in between. ![]() ‘Turn The Car Around’ is a record that I’ve been building up to for the last seven years,” says Coombes. Corgan had been developing the idea for the rock opera for years, and the pandemic gave him the time off the road to meticulously complete it in the grandiose way he had intended. The album features three original members of the band - William Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin - as well as longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder. This is the final installment in a concept album trilogy, which began with 1995’s Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness and then continued with 2000's Machina/The Machines of God. The album tells an epic interplanetary story set in the not-too-distant future, though the songs themselves respectively stand on their own in the Pumpkins pantheon. ATUM is a rock opera presented in three acts by inimitable American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. ![]()
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