The new album from THE SMASHING PUMPKINS new line up will be entitled OCEANIA and released on June 18th, 2012.EMI has announced that it has entered into agreement with Martha’s Music to release the album.
Produced by THE SMASHING PUMPKINS’ frontman Billy Corgan, OCEANIA is apparently ‘an intense and dynamic offering that will appeal to new and existing fans of THE SMASHING PUMPKINS alike. ‘ OCEANIA, the band’s seventh studio record, is “an album within an album,” part of their 44-song work-in-progress TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE.
Peter Katsis, manager of THE SMASHING PUMPKINS for Prospect Park, added: “The Smashing Pumpkins created ‘Oceania’ as an album experience, and it is intended for the process of the release to follow a path of inclusion, so that best efforts are made for all the fans hear it at the same time as press or radio. We were excited to find partners in EMI that were equally passionate about the plan for the album release as well as being huge fans of the Pumpkins.”
EMI’s relationship with THE SMASHING PUMPKINS dates back more than 20 years, to the release of Gish in 1991. That album was reissued this past November along with 1993’s Siamese Dream. Mike Harris of EMI Label Services, USA said: “We are thrilled to extend the long-term partnership between The Smashing Pumpkins and EMI with the release of ‘Oceania’. Everybody at EMI is looking forward to working closely with Billy and the band to help them deliver their vision and their music to fans around the world.”
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history having sold more than 30 million albums, and won multiple Grammy awards in the process.
Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released ‘Gish’, their influential and platinum debut in 1991, which was followed by albums including the nine-time platinum ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ and the four-time platinum ‘Siamese Dream’, as well as the platinum certified 1998 album ‘Adore’.
The pivotal group’s many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation. The PUMPKINS returned in 2007 with their sixth album ‘Zeitgeist’.
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