Billy Corgan -- The Future Embrace

A brief shoutout to Billy Corgan -- the nerdy older brother who used to be cool for talking about Queen when all his peers were talking about punk, but later became an arrogant, annoying douchebag along with his pretentious song titles and forays into poetry (however, the interviews where he rips on Zwan are extremely entertaining, spoken like a "difficult" frontman who's rich enough and self-confident enough to not care about whether he has any indie-cred left. Yes, that's a compliment).

"The Future Embrace" is a gawdawful title if there ever was one, with cover photo to match. But I've got only good things to say about the music. From the four tracks I've heard, this is what "Adore" should have sounded like. To hell with sensitive electro-pop ballads like "Annie-Dog", I want shit blown up big like "Daphne Descends". With louder guitars. Well done, Billy.