Full Smashing Pumpkins backcatalogue to be reissued

Thu 28th Apr, 2011 in International News

Twenty years after releasing their landmark debut Gish, Smashing Pumpkins are planning to reissue their entire catalogue, set to begin this year and continue through 2013.

Billy Corgan says that the band (aka Corgan and his ego) controls “all unreleased materials and will be in charge of any additional releases based on our discretion. In essence, the band has the keys to the warehouse and can release whatever we want, when we want it.”

The reissue series will feature remastered editions of all the group’s studio albums with additional bonus material. The first reissues — 1992’s Gish, 1993’s Siamese Dream, and 1994’s compilation album Pisces Iscariot — will be released later this year.

Next year will see the release of remastered versions of 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the 1996 box set The Aeroplane Flies High, and 1998’s Adore.

Finally, Machina/The Machine of God and Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music from 2000 will be bundled as one reissue and put out in 2013, along with a new ‘Best Of’ compilation.

Corgan has announced on Facebook that “Even though I pronounced the album dead, I guess I still wanna do another one” and has revealed that the new Smashing Pumpkins album Oceania is tentatively scheduled for release in September. The “album within an album” is part of the band’s ongoing 44 song Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project and will feature 10 songs that haven’t been previously released.