Both songs available digitally
Smashing Pumpkins have released two new songs, “Cyr” and “The Colour of Love” from their forthcoming album via Sumerian Records. The project will follow its 2018’s Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol 1/LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. The album saw founder Billy Corgan reunite with original members James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, with longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder.
“‘Cyr’ is dystopic folly one soul against the world sort of stuff, set against a backdrop of shifting loyalties and sped up time. To me it stands as both hopeful and dismissive of what is and isn’t possible with faith,” Corgan says in a statement.
“This is a goth fever dream of pent up emotion — an artistic visual release attempting to create a momentary escape from the emotional black cloud hanging over all of us this year. A dark seduction filmed in quarantine at a social distance,” says “Cyr” director Linda Strawberry over the quarantine performance.
The forthcoming album is due later this year with more details to unveiled soon. Six clocks on the band’s website countdown to zero, 20, 41, 62, 83 and 90 days. The zero likely refers to the two new singles while the 90 days likely refers to a November 27th album release. The 20, 41 and 83 days possibly refer to additional single releases.
Formed in Chicago, IL in 1988, The Smashing Pumpkins released their heralded debut album Gish in 1991 and found mainstream success with 1993’s 4x multi platinum Siamese Dream and 1995’s 10x multi-platinum Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. With over 30 million albums sold to date, the two-time GRAMMY, MTV VMA, and American Music Award winning band remains one of the most influential alternative rock bands in the world.
Last year, the band hit 16 amphitheaters across North America with Noel Gallagher on their High Flying Birds Tour which featured special guest AFI. Their monumental Shiny And Oh So Bright Tour took place in 2018, which sold over 400,000 tickets across North America and Europe and saw them playing sold out arena shows at venues including The Forum, United Center and Madison Square Garden. The tour was the band’s first in nearly two decades to feature Corgan, Chamberlin and Iha, alongside Schroeder, bassist Jack Bates and keyboardist Katie Cole. Critics were quick to praise the tour as “a massive gift to their fans” (Uproxx), “a welcome reminder of why those early albums resonated in the first place” (SPIN), and “an unforgettably rewarding and often spectacular odyssey” (Forbes).
