2 August 2024

New album artwork

Spread over two years, 2022-2023, THE SMASHING PUMKINGS,
fronted by general Billy Corgan released Atum: A Rock Opera
In Three Acts last year.

And general Billy Corgan‘s productive juices keep on flowing. The result is already
another new longplayer. Today they dropped AGHORI MHORI MEI on the internet,
only three weeks after its release announcement. No singles to warm up, the full
shebang – 10 songs – in one go.

Press photo

Physical copies of the LP will be released in the future on exclusive edition
Vinyl through frontman Billy Corgan‘s Chicago tea room Madade ZuZu’s.

Billy Corgan about AMM: “In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, “you can’t go home again.” 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.”

TUTV: To my ears, AMM resonates (so far, just had a couple of spins at this very
moment), like Atum Part IV. Vintage Smashing Pumpkins bombast featuring familiar sounding wall-of-guitar haymakers such as Edin, Pentagrams, War Dreams Of Itself and Sicarus, some high-voltage, mid-tempo jackhammers (999 / Sighomni), and a couple of amplified ballads, Pentecost, Who Goes There, Goeth The Fall and my favorite one,
closer Murnau.

Nothing awful, nothing supreme. Familiar territory.

Corgan cites ‘Siamese Dream’ and ‘Mellon Collie’ as references, although I’m sure
he knows that he will never get back to that outstanding, monumental level any
more.

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