Soma – Smashing Pumpkins

Soma – Smashing Pumpkins

Only really when an album been lorded as seminal, can a track ever really stand out.  A song with no single release, just purely keeping up it’s own on this album is a fucking astounding feat – but not only keeping up it’s own, but holding the whole album (Siamese Dream, in this case) to an impressive high standard.  It’s hard to talk about Soma without Mayonnaise, Sweet Sweet and lastly, the breathtakingly simple and astoundingly beautiful Luna – Siamese Dream itself is a sweet masterpiece that really deserves more time and attention that even the most avid fan have time to give….the whole album screams beauty, pain, desire and eloquence…pay attention.  Soma is just one chapter in Siamese Dream – it only really makes sense when it makes up the whole wonderful trackilist.