The Smashing Pumpkins have shared details of a surprise album called ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’, set to arrive next month.
News of the forthcoming project arrived earlier today (July 19), when the band took to their social media accounts to confirm that they had completed work on a new LP and would be sharing it on August 2.
It marks the 13th album from the alt-rock icons, and follows on from ‘Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts’, which arrived in May 2023. The members will share the release in its entirety next month, and have confirmed that they will not be sharing any singles beforehand.
“We played this game of Rock and Roll for 36 years,” frontman Billy Corgan wrote in a statement. “And… had to give the knee many times to what is the first song and what is the first statement and let other people judge us by one moment in time. We felt the right way to hear this record was an intact body of work.”
“10 songs, about 45 minutes, and then let the fans decide whether or not what we’ve done is what we set out to accomplish, whether we put ourselves back in that original position, whether we were able to go home again with this record.
He concluded: “So on August 2nd, 2024, it’ll be there for everyone to listen to.
We’re just gonna put it out digitally. Of course, we’re gonna put it for sale and that comes later, but we want to just put the record out.”
‘Aghori Mhori Mei’ will be shared digitally on August 2 and is available for pre-order here. Check out a trailer above, and the artwork and full tracklist below.
AGHORI MHORI MEI’ – the latest album from The Smashing Pumpkins – available August 2. Pre-save on your favorite DSP now https://t.co/HVq7WTTCJI
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— The Smashing Pumpkins (@SmashingPumpkin) July 19, 2024
The ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Edin’
2. ‘Pentagrams’
3. ‘Sighommi’
4. ‘Pentecost’
5. ‘War Dreams Of Itself’
6. ‘Who Goes There’
7. ‘999’
8. ‘Goeth The Fall’
9. ‘Sicarus’
10. ‘Murnau’
As aforementioned, the project will mark the follow-up to the band’s 2023 release ‘ATUM’, which was released in three parts with a total of 33 songs. It also marks the first release with the band’s new guitarist Kiki Wong, and comes after the latest line-up played a hit-heavy setlist, as well as a cover of U2’s ‘Zoo Station’ at their first show together.
‘ATUM’ scored a four-star review, with Damian Jones writing for NME: “As albums go, ‘ATUM’ is an ambitious body of work and does ask a lot of its audience. But there’s also plenty on here to please any diehard Pumpkins fan.”
In other Smashing Pumpkins news, Corgan recently addressed his recent comments about not wanting to play Smashing Pumpkins hits, by sharing a recent setlist that is bursting with the band’s biggest songs.
Additionally, he announced in February that he would be releasing a new unscripted series called Adventures In Carnyland. The show will reportedly focus on his involvement in wrestling – with the musician serving as the president of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) since 2017 – and the trailer dropped last month.
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