Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace
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Artist: Billy CorganEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- All Things Change
- Mina Loy (M.O.H.)
- The CameraEye
- ToLoveSomebody
- A100
- DIA
- Now (And Then)
- I'm Ready
- Walking Shade
- Sorrows (in blue)
- Pretty, pretty STAR
- Strayz
Music reviews of TheFutureEmbrace
Music Review: A surprising and worthy successor to Dark Side of the Moon
Rating: 5 Stars
There is a documentary out there that examines each Smashing Pumpkins album and at some point they say that Siamese Dream was basically a tribute album that culls certain riffs and such from the Pumpkins' favorite bands... or that it's at least the most influence-heavey album. A few years later, when Pink Floyd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Billy Corgan sang Wish You Were Here with David Gilmour. And his first solo album almost seems like a wet dream for a Pink Floyd fan.
Dark Side of the Moon seems to be an exercise in using restrained instrumentation to convey a bigger sensory expereince. Almost all of Pink Floyd's mid career work seems aimed at using music to convey multi-sense ideas and experiences, but Dark Side is the only album where they seem like they're showcasing their discovery in a delicate, precise way, as if they are taking inventory of what they are capable of, and with the minimalism accompanying the precision comes one of the most affecting works in their discography.
TheFutureEmbace carries a philosophical attitude, visceral sensations and an impression that you are watching a person in a place doing things, action driven like a film. Part of the appeal of accoustic music is that with just a person's voice and maybe one or two instruments, you mostly get a musical portrait of a person and their experiences. Reducing something to its bare essentials puts content at the forfront. What Billy Corgan has produced is pretty much an electronic accoustic album. His lyric writing abilities are also unusually strong here, particularly on the songs Mina Loy, The CameraEye, DIA, Now (and then) and Strayz. The whole package is great, but only certain songs are immediately accessable. Most of the songs are concise and there are a few great would-be singles here. It's a good album to listen to while doing things, but you can only get the full effect if you're focused on listening. There are different levels on which content is conveyed. Sometimes it's music supporting lyrical content, like Mina Loy, The CameraEye, DIA, and there are some places where musical atmosphere carries subject matter, like ToLoveSomebody, A100, I'm Ready and Sorrows (in blue) but most of the album rests on a place between lyrical and musical emphasis like Now (and then), Strayz and Walking Shade. The combined effect is very satisfying and multidimensional and has an almost conceptual unity keeping it together...I hesitate to call it a concept album because this whole thing sounds very organic and unplanned.
Put simply, Billy Corgan does his best work when he abandons his desire to do huge, epic projects and says exactly what he is thinking with no embellishment.
Description of TheFutureEmbrace
The first solo album ever released by Billy Corgan-the revered singer/songwriter/guitarist whose groundbreaking work with The Smashing Pumpkins defined modern rock-is shockingly affirmative, even romantic. Corgan's most intimate set of songs yet, the hauntingly beautiful TheFutureEmbrace brings together Corgan's astonishing past and promising present.Odd it may seem, Billy Corgan is wearing his heart on his extremely long sleeve, in his first proper solo album since dismantling the Smashing Pumpkins five years ago. Maybe it took that long to process the enormity of that loss, since The Future Embrace sounds like nothing so much as a break-up album. But having said that, it's rather difficult to determine whether it's the absence of James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain, and D'Arcy Wretzky or just something much more mundane than the shattering of an affair of the heart that his sent him on this 12-song confessional. To his extreme credit, Corgan isn't trying to obscure his pain and uncertainty behind layers of guitar distortion and sonic dissonance the way he did with the Pumpkins, instead he's employed a rather restrained hand as he tries to work his way out of this psychic maze of his own making, cavorting with the ghosts of his past, present and future on such kinetic panoramas as "All Things Change," "DIA," or the rather wrenching "The Camera Eye," where the musician wrestles with his fear of aging, his burgeoning religiosity as and the necessity of transformation. Don't miss Robert Smith singing rather angular back-ups on the Bee Gee's skewed ode to love, "You Don't Know What It's Like." A tremendous and noble effort from a major talent. --Jaan Uhelszki
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