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Generally favorable reviews- based on 67 Ratings
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Positive: 43 out of 67
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Mixed: 11 out of 67
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Negative: 13 out of 67
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Jun 6, 2023This is actually a damn good album if you discard expecting to hear SD2 or MCIS2. This grew on me a hell of a lot.
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Nov 27, 2020
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Nov 29, 2020Branching out further into the unknown territory, the smashing pumpkins have produced a synth pop record with plenty of hooks and incredible lyrics
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Dec 2, 2020
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Dec 7, 2020Best album 2020. Smashing pumpkins at them best. Billy corgan is still an amazing song writter
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Jan 7, 2021CYR is a fantastic album from start to finish. It is a progressive album that seems aimed at people that like creative unique music. It is the closest to innovation O can remember since the album Adore. It is also a great album to listen to during a workout thanks to the great drumming. Overall a 10 out of 10 album by a unique band.
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Sep 7, 2023This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Dec 10, 2020
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Jul 4, 2023Hugely underrated. Possibly the best Pumpkins album of this millennium. Haters gonna hate.
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Dec 4, 2020Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read. - Frank Zappa. first listen to the album then yes drew your conclusions. An album by a band that keeps itself relevant.Beautiful songs in my simple opinion
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Nov 29, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 22, 2021To the critics.... and the colour of your love is grey
It's not my favourite Pumpkins album but it's still the best album I've heard this year -
Jan 1, 2021
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Nov 27, 2020Billy has written some very strong melodies here. This is the second best post Machina record next to Oceania.
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Nov 28, 2020It might not be "Adore" but Cyr hits very much where I was expecting, when divided into two, the album becomes much more digestible and ends up being a very solid work when compared to anything made by the Pumpkins when Billy Corgan ran it on his own
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Dec 4, 2020
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Dec 15, 2020I'm absolutely into this record, I think that this is great step forward for the band. They've always gone against the grain and done what they want, this album is no different. Less an album than a 20-song load to be listened however you want. Go SP.
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Nov 30, 2020Several catchy tunes here, including "Wyttch" and "Colour of Your Love", as well as some more sensitive tracks such as "Birch Grove." No horrible, must-skip tracks. But overall, just a decent listen, nothing phenomenal.
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Jan 22, 2021
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Nov 30, 2020A bit monotonous. Should've been a single LP.
Corgan's vocals and lyrics have grown to be grating throughout the mostly synth-driven tracks. While better than most of what he's produced in the past 20 years, it's still a far cry from the Pumpkins' previous greatness. -
Nov 27, 2020
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Nov 28, 2020
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Nov 27, 2020
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Dec 1, 2020Utterly disappointing output from a man who wanted his band back together. Jimmy playing drum machine beats and James no where to be found. Ploddy GCSE synths, bloated tracklisting and absolutely nothing to come back to apart from maybe the CYR track itself. What a waste of time for everyone involved. Production is ok though, hence 2 stars.
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Nov 27, 2020
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Nov 28, 20201% pumpkins magic here. Songs are emotionless, uninspired, repetitive and outright desultory. This has nothing to do with genre, I adore plenty of their electronic music. Plus, it's not a double album. That is the band clutching at straws.
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Dec 5, 2020
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Mar 24, 2021Long time Smashing Pumpkins fan here. This album blows. Look, this party sadly came to a screeching halt after Machina. Zeitgeist, Oceania, Monuments, Shiny and now CYR are all profoundly uninspired albums that bear no resemblance with the Pumpkins' exceptional earlier material.
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Dec 5, 2020Horrible . This is not the Smashing Pumpkins ive seen in concert and listened to on cd.
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Nov 28, 2020Just absolutely dreadful. So disappointed. Almost as bad as Shiny, and that's saying something. Wyttch and Seek and You Shall Destroy - the worst rock songs if the century
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Nov 28, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
Awards & Rankings
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 8, 2020It's a concoction that shouldn't work but does. ... Disarming. [Jan 2021, p.82]
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Dec 4, 2020By turns arched, ambitious, intriguing and expressive this sprawling 20 song set recalls the band’s earlier epics with melodies that boast the same elevated intensity that’s driven their signature sound from early on.
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Dec 2, 2020Rather than a through-line back to the Pumpkins’ trip-hoppy Adore, Cyr often sounds like Corgan was going for a new-wave sound that recalls Talk Talk, and unfortunately he has neither the singular vision he had in the Nineties nor the melodic savvy of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis to pull it off. Instead, most of the songs, all filled with neo-goth romantic lyrics, stumble and fumble over meandering melodies with no sing-along choruses to buttress them.