The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei (2024)

Just over a year after the Smashing Pumpkins released their triple-album Atum, Billy Corgan and company are back with another new LP titled Aghori Mhori Mei, arriving in two weeks’ time on August 2. Soon after the release of the final installment of Atum, the prolific Corgan returned to the studio to begin work on the band’s next album while employing a recording strategy that the Pumpkins relied on in the early Nineties. “In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again,’” Corgan said in a statement. “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.” As the band revealed on social media Friday, the album won’t be preceded by any singles, with Corgan opting to deliver the LP directly to fans as “an intact body of work” on August 2. “10 songs, about 45 minutes, and then let the fans decides whether we put ourselves back in that original position, whether we were able to go home again with this record,” Corgan added. The Smashing Pumpkins recorded Aghori Mhori Mei amid their packed touring schedule over the past few years, which continues throughout 2024: The band will perform shows with Green Day on that group’s Saviors Tour while also staging solo gigs and festival appearances along the way. Aghori Mhori Mei is arrive digitally only on August 2, with a physical release down the road. “We just want to put the album out,” Corgan added. rollingstone.com