Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Aug. 2) on Billboard , choosing the the Billy Corgan -led rock band’s 13th studio album as their favorite new music release of the past week.
The Pumpkins’ 10-track Aghori Mhori Mei is the follow-up to last year’s three-act rock opera, ATUM . The new set was recorded in the midst of the veteran Chicago act’s busy touring schedule over the past few years.
“In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again’,” guitarist/singer Corgan said in a statement . “Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”
Corgan called the two-plus hour, 33-song ATUM a sequel to Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 classic double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God .
The mid-July announcement of Aghori Mhori arrived after the Pumpkins booked a run of fall tour dates in South and Latin America, marking the group’s first venture south in almost a decade. In addition, the trio — Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlain — is currently on the road opening for Green Day on their Saviors tour, mixed in with headlining shows across the U.S. through September. The Latin American tour launches Nov. 1 in Brasilia, Brazil.
Trailing behind Smashing Pumpkins on this week’s poll is a remix of Charli xcx’s “Guess,” featuring featuring Billie Eilish. The track brought in 10% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s poll below. Check out Billboard ‘s Friday Music Guide to catch up with more must-hear releases from this week.
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