Credit: Olivia BeeThe Smashing Pumpkins are currently in the studio recording a new album, the group’s second release since original members Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin announced their reunion in 2018. But, according to Corgan, the first one, titled Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1/LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., didn’t really count.
“We didn’t approach it like we’ve approached every other album we’d ever done, which is more like making a movie,” Corgan tells The Tennessean.
“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,” Corgan explains of the upcoming new effort. “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.”
Corgan adds that the next album has a “greater conceptual base,” and covers 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,'” he says. “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.”
You can catch the Pumpkins live this spring when they headline Atlanta’s Shaky Knees festival in May.
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