American grunge-goth legends Smashing Pumpkins have revealed that their forthcoming album ‘Teargarden by Kaleidyscope’ is set to be a free download.
Smashing Pumpkins have taken some odd career decisions in their time. Following up their most successful album with a series of electronic adventures, splitting up, getting back together and more the band have continually surprised fans.
However the group’s recent actions have stunned and bewildered their supporters. A disastrous American tour last year was followed by the departure of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, with Smashing Pumpkins recruiting a teenager in replacement.
Since then the band have completed work on ‘Teargarden by Kaleidyscope’ – a proposed 44 track album. To further confuse the issue Smashing Pumpkins have revealed that the album will be available as a collection of eleven EPs – and not as an actual album.
“I want no limitations on what I can, and will do,” said Billy Corgan. “I think the size and shape of the traditional album is just morphing into something much more in the moment. Four songs at a time will mean I can give my heart over to the music fully without giving away my now happy life.”
Speaking to American magazine Rolling Stone the singer claimed that he could afford to give away his music. “I can’t afford it!” he replied.
“But I would rather be free than rich. The (major) labels are dead ghosts walking, and they know it. They never should have left this mystic free, because I am way more of a pied piper than they could ever fathom.”
Continuing the frontman said that “the first four songs are speaking a new language to me, rooted in the psychedelic music I love but still sounding quite modern and like the Pumpkins I long to hear”.