The Smashing Pumpkins will release their 13th studio album next month. The Billy Corgan-led group revealed on Friday (July 19) that the 10-track Aghori Mhori Mei will drop on August 2 as the follow-up to last year’s three-act rock opera, ATUM.
“In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again’,” guitarist/singer Corgan said in a statement about the album that was recorded in the midst of the veteran Chicago band’s busy touring schedule over the past few years. “Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”
Following the release of the the two-plus hour, 33-song ATUM — which Corgan posited as a sequel to the band’s 1995 classic double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God — the release says Corgan went back into the studio to write, produce and record the new album with a track list featuring a number of provocative song titles, including: “Pentagrams,” “War Dreams of Itself” and “Goeth the Fall.”
The album announcement came after the Pumpkins booked a run of fall tour dates in South and Latin America, marking their first venture south in almost a decade. In addition, the band is currently on the road opening for Green Day on their Saviors tour, including an upcoming July 29 show at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., mixed in with headlining shows across the U.S. through a September 28 gig at Petco Park in San Diego; the Latin American tour kicks off on November 1 in Brasilia, Brazil.
Check out the Aghori Mhori Mei tracklist below.
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”
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