Earlier this year, Smashing Pumpkins announced the 2015 arrival of two brand-new albums titled Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night. “Pleased to announce that I’ve just inked a new record deal with BMG that will see the release of two Smashing Pumpkins albums in 2015,” frontman Billy Corgan shared the exciting news in March. Four months later, the Chicago band has already finished recording the first of the two new albums, Monuments to an Elegy, and offered a glimpse at its tracklist.
“Here’s the (the as of now) track list, subject to changes and changes,” Corgan posted on the band’s website with two possible listings. “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.” Corgan also revealed that the process of writing and recording Monuments To An Elegy was ”one of the easiest and most pleasurable albums I’ve ever made.”
Monuments to an Elegy is positioned to be the Pumpkin’s ninth studio album and will serve as the follow-up to the band’s latest album Oceania, which debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 when released in 2012.
There’s no release date scheduled for the upcoming album yet, but Corgan says, “if we’re lucky,” the album will drop “soon enough.” The group’s 10th album, Day For Night, will trail close behind.
Until then, we can be on the lookout for the first single from Monuments to an Elegy, which should arrive by “year’s end.”
