#Smashing four orbs tracker update
On June 18, 2014, Corgan announced the song as being "done" in another recording update on the band's website.
In a later update on 16 May, Corgan described "stripping away previous guitars so that all that was left were drums and bass", then adding an "arpeggiated figure" reminiscent of The Who's "Baba O'Riley" as well as strings reminiscent of the band's own song Tonight, Tonight. In an update on the recording process posted on the band's website on April 14, 2014, band leader Billy Corgan described the song's sound as being more Big Country than The Smashing Pumpkins, with producer Howard Willing criticising the "80s drums" on the track, triggering a process of "deconstruction". The final version that appears on the album seems to be considerably different from its early demo version. The song was featured on several preliminary track listings for the album posted on the band's website. In contrast, Consequence of Sound's Michael Roffman likened the track to the band's previous album Oceania. In similar vein, Drowned In Sound's Andrzej Lukowski described the track as a "blippy homage to Corgan’s beloved New Order". Speculating on possible influences, the Rolling Stone's Dan Hallman characterised the song as " Killers-ish". In his review of the album, Spin's Andrew Unterberger compared the song to the work of synthpop duo Erasure. Most music critics noted the song's deviating from the band's traditional guitar sound.
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