Smashing Pumpkins, The - Adore [2LP] (180 Gram)

Adore is the fourth album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released in June 1998. The Smashing Pumpkins had cemented their place as a cultural force with the multi-platinum Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Already sensing the limits of their guitar-driven hard rock sound, the band had started to branch out during the making of Mellon Collie and after the chart-topping success of the electronica inspired track "1979", the band zeroed in on electronica. Billy Corgan stated that much of the record was "an attempt to go back to what's important at a musical core and build it outward." Corgan would later reflect that he was fixated on the idea that he needed to prove that he " was an artist, which is the death knell of any artist".