You were wrong! Squirrel likes!!
Really? Ms "I Hate 80sesque Synthsounds"? Am genuinely surprised. Also, this pleases me. Immensely
Feel free to suck on my acid squelchies til your cheeks cave in and all we have left is wrinkly deathfuck...
DMX Krew - Bass Drop
DMX Krew - March to the Stars
DMX Krew - A Place Called Love
Love me, love my squelchies, my love

Reminds me of smashing pumpkins
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Admittedly I've only skipped through it but I know what you mean... if you only take late-era Pumpkins into account and - let's face it - they went to shit in the mid-late 90s at best. To be fair, their mild n mellow pop-perk tunes were also prety damn good but (proper) Pumpkins they were not. I like what I've heard - and the Pumpkinesque influence is definitely there - but it's the sound of the "took it all too far" end of their musical ouvre when they were spazzing out borderline dire gothsynthpop tweeness interspersed with unsellable (yet still majestic) gee-tar headmasherry godliness (as B-sides at best) with flat out shite (I

the Pumpkins with all my

and soul but I defy anybody to sit through James Iha's solo album once let alone twice

). Does sound good but that is not the Pumpkins era to be celebrated so much as make a Pumpkins fan sob with frustration at getting it almost right so many times, so far from right it is painful to witness most times, and nigh-on perfect once in a blue moon to keep that flame a-burning...
Will listen to properly though cos sounds decent in its own right to me so far
I usually post live Pumpkins stuff on the basis that I assume all with ears must surely know the albums or be damned to shame and loss forever. I'm going with studio recordings for a change to make the above point. Leaving aside all the twiddly fanboy stuff on other recordings, pure Pumpkins godliness
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Smashing Pumpkins - Geek, USA
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
PS: As a gee-tar man perhaps you will appreciate that it was that album above and over all that not only got me properly into gee-tar music again but (alongside Radiohead's The Bends and Nirvana's Nevermind) made me buy a relatively expensive gee-tar and a decidedly cheap amp (in hindsight, very much the wrong way around

) and learn to play again).