Album Review: Cotillions by William Patrick Corgan

Billy Corgan has forced his fans to reconcile a whole mess of contradictions over the past 30 years. He's the self-branded zero who became a hero to millions. He's the would-be Vince McMahon who also owned a tea shop. He's a friend to cute cats and ugly monsters alike. He is both the bull-headed ….

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The Lowdown: The best way to enjoy the second record from William Patrick Corgan is to pull a full Chris Gaines on yourself and pretend that he’s a wholly separate person from Billy Corgan. That way, instead of being reminded of The Smashing Pumpkins' prickly frontman and his penchant for double-dealing ex-bandmates, flirting with truther-ism, and threatening to quit touring after multiple onstage confrontations with crowd members, you can think about mild-mannered William, a gentle man with an acoustic guitar and an ear for Americana-tinged melancholy. That’s what you get on Cotillions, the new double album Corgan calls “a true labor of love” that finds him refining his take on stripped-down, middle-aged balladry that began on 2017’s Ogilala.

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In 1984, Sylvester Stallone was two years removed from Rocky III and First Blood. By the time 1985 ended, Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II would propel him to one of the biggest movie stars in the country. This, however, was 1984, the one year in the eighties where Stallone wouldn't make a major action film. Instead, he and Dolly Parton co-starred in a musical comedy called Rhinestone.

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