"Adore is sentimental and enthralling, like campfire songs for the computer age."
    Details Magazine

"The band's new album is literally bursting at the seams with fresh ideas. Corgan along with guitarist James Iha and bassist D'arcy, has created a brave new Pumpkinland."
    Guitar World

"Adore is the Pumpkins' riskiest undertaking. Yet another brilliantly successful leap by Corgan into the familiar unknown."
    Request Magazine

"Best Pumpkins disc yet."
    Chicago Sun Times

"Adore represents a bold shift in direction. And amid the inevitable nods to expected influences - hints of Velvet Underground desolation waft in and out of some songs, while others echo the dreamy environments of Eno - are some more surprising touches, including vocal harmonies that emulate the plush splendor of the Beach Boys. But some things haven't changed. Corgan still has an enviable knack for insinuating hooks, those tag phrases that seem unremarkable at first, but become inescapable within minutes."
    Philadelphia Inquirer

"Mastery of song format, creating catchy little anthems."
    Hartford Courant

"With Adore, The Pumpkins have found a way to challenge their audience yet again...an album whose rich layers reveal themselves with each subsequent listen."
    San Francisco Chronicle

"...A work of considerable depth and substance...a richly rewarding experience."
    London Times (UK)

"The music is magnetic - an ever changing anthem that turns on a sixpence between sophisticated, piano-lashed soft rock and curious barbershop interlude, full of lulls and loops, wedges of cranky guitar and vocal crescendos."
    Q Magazine (UK)

"Adore gets better and better, rising to peaks with the trancelike 'Shame'...'Blank Page' is the most heartbreakingly lovely thing Corgan has ever written."
    Mojo (UK)

"Adore is a masterpiece: a cinematic collection of snapshots of the soul, postcards from the edge of sanity, a come-down from the fist wave of infatuation, an album about love and all its trappings (5 stars)."
    Melody Maker (UK)

"Corgan's best songs to date...Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins are operating on a level far above any of their alt-rock peers."
    Kerrang (UK)

"Adore picks up some of the threads from Mellon Collie and introduces fresh colours of its own...it strikes a cunningly crafted balance between adventurousness and accessibility."
    The Guardian (UK)

"Succumb now, when The Pumpkins' work tastes sweeter than before. Right through to the last 17 seconds, Adore is unmissable listening for the dazed, confused and hopelessly passionate."
    Time Out (UK)

"Adore is well worth the wait, "Daphne Descends" and "Once Upon a Time" are perfect examples of the magic The Pumpkins posses; they relax you, caress you, then tuck you up in bed all warm and toasty."
    Nine to Five (Australia)

"The Smashing Pumpkins are the best rock band in the world. Even for those that do not agree, it is inevitable to accept that the band has all the ingredients that made the greatest band of all time - not only in the music but also in their attitude."
    Blitz (Portugal)

"Of all the bands that came out of the grunge era, The Smashing Pumpkins are the only ones left on the highest level 10 years later...Additionally they are the only ones that keep renewing themselves...They prove this again with their newest album Adore. The Pumpkins keep it interesting for themselves as well as their fans."
    Maarten Post (Belgium)

"Billy Corgan, D'arcy and James Iha have come up with a surprisingly fluid mixture of artificial sounding beats, 1980's sounding keyboards, and warm welcoming melodies."
    The Irish Times (Ireland)

"Adore is a record for the end of an era, an invitation to something else. This is a record which could actually change the face of American rock, and define a new standard."
    Les Inrockuptildes (France)

"The timelessness of an American tradition drawing upon Leonard Cohen or Gram Parsons is to be found in the classic purity of tracks such as 'To Sheila,' 'Once Upon A Time,' 'Tear,' 'Appels + Oranjes' and 'Shame.'"
    Le Monde (France)

"We have here a solid album bearing all the hallmarks of gutsy creativity, a courageous offering from a band which refuses to be repetitive by recycling old ideas which have been tested a hundred times over."
    Liberation (France)