Earlier this year, we were welcomed with the news of two new Smashing Pumpkins albums. Regardless of how this made you feel, it is always a big move to go for such an undertaking. Billy Corgan has always gone against the odds. The albums, Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night, have been set for an early 2015 release date.
Well, today we have officially been informed that the first album of the two, Monuments To An Elegy, is complete. Corgan commented on the band’s website saying that it’s “one of the easiest and most pleasurable albums I’ve ever made.”
He also talked it up big time. “Having heard the album through for a first time (in this, a finished form), I was taken aback. ‘It’s indescribable, that,’ I told Shredder, meaning that what I heard (in the sum total of songs) was unlike anything I could recognize. Yet none of it was unfamiliar, either: big choruses, probing lyrics, odd twists of melody, and guitars, guitars for days; strange indeed…”
So, yeah. Take that for what it’s worth. Either way this venture should be exciting.
He posted the “as of now” track listing:
TIBERIUS/BEING BEIGE/ANAISE
ONE AND ALL/RUN2ME/DRUM AND FIFE
MONUMENTS/DORIAN/ANTI-HER0
OR: ROCKER/EPIC-ER/DISCO
ROCKER/EPIC-ER/TRIUMPH
DARKNESS/GOTHNESS/STOMPER
Going to assume it’s the prior and Mr. Corgan just wanted to be funny. Either way, it’s all very intriguing. Stay tuned to UTG for more updates on the Smashing Pumpkins.
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