In Defense of: "Oceania" by The Smashing Pumpkins
During the Summer of 2012, almost exactly five years after the release of "Zeitgeist", Billy Corgan and his newly reformed Smashing Pumpkins released "Oceania", an epic, complex, and atmospheric rock odyssey album that laid prominently in the middle of the so-called "Teargarden by Kaleidyscope" era. It is one of two actual albums (the other being 2014's "Monuments to an Elegy") in Corgan's restructuring of how the band would release new music to the digital age of music. Corgan stated that he...