The Smashing Pumpkins - ATUM (4LP)

ATUM is a rock opera presented in three acts by inimitable American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. 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. 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 features three original members of the band—William Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin—as well as longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder. 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.

1. Atum

2. Butterfly Suite

3. The Good In Goodbye

4. Embracer

5. With Ado I Do

6. Hooligan

7. Steps In Time

8. Where Rain Must Fall

9. Beyond The Vale

10. Hooray!

11. The Gold Mask

12. Avalanche

13. Empires

14. Neophyte

15. Moss

16. Night Waves

17. Space Age

18. Every Morning

19. To The Grays

20. Beguiled

21. The Culling

22. Springtimes

23. Sojurner

24. That Which Animates The Spirit

25. X Ray

26. Pacer

27. In Lieu Of Failure

28. Cenotaph

29. Harmageddon

30. Fireflies

31. Intergalactic

32. Spellbinding

33. Of Wings

34. Audio Story