THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: Pisces Iscariot Vinyl 2LP

Before the Pumpkins were an arena-filling machine, they were this: weird, wounded, and putting out a B-sides compilation that somehow felt more essential than most bands' proper records. Pisces Iscariot came out in 1994 between Siamese Dream and the behemoth that was Mellon Collie, and it's the sound of a band with too many good ideas and not enough patience to save them for the right moment.

Covers, castoffs, and buried treasure. The Fleetwood Mac cover lands. The originals hit harder than they have any right to. And pressed here onto 180-gram 2LP vinyl, the whole thing gets the weight it always deserved. For anyone who came up in the Melbourne alternative scene arguing about whether Billy Corgan was a genius or insufferable, and eventually accepted the answer was both.

180-gram 2LP vinyl. Alt rock, grunge. USA. Original release 1994.

Fans of: Hum, Failure, Lush, Veruca Salt.

Format: Vinyl LP.