The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has officially announced that the band’s new double album is “finally finished.”
The brand new full-length LP will act as the official follow up to 2018’s lengthy-titled project: Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun, which was the first record to come out in over 18 years from the band, and featured three founding members alongside longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder.
In a new post through the group’s social channels, Billy Corgan wrote:
“Mixing is now complete on 20 songs; next step is mastering (which is sort-of a last step, technical thingy).
“So for all reasonable purposes, the album is finally finished. Thank you to all who’ve supported the journey – new SP music coming soon.”
Billy previously told the Tennessean about the new material:
“When we got back together with James, we went in with Rick Rubin and did eight songs. It was put out as a formal album, but I said at the time – and I did mean it – in my eyes, it wasn’t an album.
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“We didn’t approach it like we’ve approached every other album we’d ever done, which is more like making a movie.
“In many ways, this is the first real album [since the reunion] where we’ve hunkered down and made a classic, ‘Let’s throw it all at the wall and see what happens’ type of Pumpkins record. I’ve been working on it for over a year. It currently is at 21 songs, and we’re going to release it as a double this year.
“This is the first album since the album that came out in 2000, Machina, where me, James and Jimmy worked on something for a very long time. It’s got a greater conceptual base, and it’s probably a wider swath of music.
“The last one was kind of, like, ‘Let’s just jump in, record some stuff real fast, and let it be what it is,’ … so I’m excited about this because we’re kind of back in the lane of taking a risk, and trying to bring something new to the table, as opposed to just aping what we’re known for.”
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