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Adore (The Smashing Pumpkins album)
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Adore
A black-and-white photo of a Caucasian woman leaning forward while
holding the ends of a flowing black dress. In the corner, "Adore" is
displayed in white handwriting.
Studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released June 2, 1998
Recorded December 1997 – March 1998 at Sunset Sound, The Village Recorder, Chicago Recording Company, and various studios
Genre Alternative rock, electronica
Length 73:25
Label Virgin
Producer Billy Corgan, Flood, Brad Wood
The Smashing Pumpkins chronology
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
(1995) Adore
(1998) Machina/The Machines of God
(2000)
Singles from Adore
"Ava Adore"
Released: May 18, 1998
"Perfect"
Released: September 7, 1998
"Crestfallen"
Released: 1998 (promo)
"To Sheila"
Released: January 1999 (promo)
Adore is the fourth album by American alternative rock band The Smashing
Pumpkins, released in June 1998 by Virgin Records. After the
multi-platinum success of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and a
subsequent yearlong world tour, follow-up Adore was considered "one of
the most anticipated albums of 1998" by MTV.[1] Recording the album
proved to be a challenge as the band members struggled with lingering
interpersonal problems and musical uncertainty in the wake of three
increasingly successful rock albums and the departure of drummer Jimmy
Chamberlin.[2] Frontman Billy Corgan would later characterize Adore as
"a band falling apart".[3]
The result was a much more subdued and electronica-tinged sound that
Greg Kot of Rolling Stone magazine called "a complete break with the
past".[4] The album divided the fan base and sold only a fraction of the
previous two albums. However, the album was well received by critics,
and became the third straight Pumpkins album to be nominated for the
Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.[5] A remastered and
expanded version for the album will be released on CD and vinyl in 2013
as a part of the band's project to reissue their back catalogue from
1991-2000.
