Cyr
by The Smashing Pumpkins
User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 67 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 67
  3. Negative: 13 out of 67
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#64 Most Discussed Album of 2020

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Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Dec 8, 2020
    70
    It's a concoction that shouldn't work but does. ... Disarming. [Jan 2021, p.82]
  2. American Songwriter
    Dec 4, 2020
    80
    By 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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  3. Rolling Stone
    Dec 2, 2020
    40
    Rather 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.
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