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かつてオルタナティヴ・バンドとして,圧倒的な影響力を持ったバンドの第5作。ドラムのジミー・チェンバレンが復帰し,メランコリックでありながらも力強いサウンドが戻ってきた。ビリー・コーガンの,どこかふっきれた感じのヴォーカルも好感が持てる。
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With the doubters hovering round his band following the rock-is-dead pronouncement that preceded the flawed electronic dabbling of
Adore,
MACHINA finds Billy Corgan desperate to prove everyone, not least himself, wrong. On the Pumpkins' fifth album, they attempt to reclaim the higher ground they dominated with the peerless
Siamese Dream and the sprawling 28-track opus
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. As a result they hit the ground running on
MACHINA, exploding into life with "The Everlasting Gaze" in a firestorm of guitars and heavy metaphysical thunder. There are some quintessential Pumpkins moments here, notably "Stand Inside Your Love", which soars away on a spiralling guitar solo, and "Try, Try, Try" which taps into Corgan's ever present melancholy. At 73-minutes long,
MACHINA overstays its welcome, beginning to flag, ironically, at the self-aggrandising "Heavy Metal Machine". No matter, by this point, the Pumpkins have made their point with brutal grace.
--Mike Pattenden
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