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TheFutureEmbrace
Sign in to saveTheFutureEmbrace is the debut solo album by American musician Billy Corgan, frontman of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Released in June 2005, the album's sound was markedly different from most of Corgan's earlier work, eschewing his characteristic "drums, bass, (and) big-guitars sound" in favor of an electronic sound punctuated with heavily distorted guitar parts reminiscent of shoegaze.
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- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Billy Corgan
- First released
- 2005-06-20
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Key facts
- Album.name
- TheFutureEmbrace
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Billy Corgan
- Album.cover
- THEFUTUREEMBRACE.jpg
- Album.recorded
- October 2004 – March 2005
- Album.genre
- Alternative rock shoegaze electronic rock electronica
- Album.language
- English
- Album.label
- Reprise
- Album.producer
- Billy Corgan Bjorn Thorsrud
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- alternative rock
- Followed by
- Zeitgeist
- Performer
- Billy Corgan
- Record label
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
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- language of work or name
- English language
- publication date
- 2005-01-01
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- Background and production
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- Track listing
- Personnel
- Chart position
- References
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TheFutureEmbrace is the debut solo album by American musician Billy Corgan, frontman of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Released in June 2005, the album's sound was markedly different from most of Corgan's earlier work, eschewing his characteristic "drums, bass, (and) big-guitars sound" in favor of an electronic sound punctuated with heavily distorted guitar parts reminiscent of shoegaze.
== Background and production == After the dissolution of Zwan in late 2003, Corgan set to work on a solo album of songs based on the history of his hometown, Chicago. This project was shelved and Corgan began work on TheFutureEmbrace in late 2004 in his Chicago studio, Pumpkinland. Rather than repeat the sonic territory of his earlier bands, Corgan decided on an electronic sound with shoegaze influences. Regarding the atypical sound of the album, Corgan remarked,
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