Says Corgan of his new LP, and working with Rubin:
“For as long as I can remember the delineation point between songs I wrote for myself and songs I’d pen for whatever band was something I couldn’t explain. And it remains so, for they all feel quite personal to me, no matter their time or era. The lone difference on songs for Ogilala is that they seemed to want little in the way of adornment.
“Having written the songs for voice and guitar, I put myself in Rick’s hands to take the music wherever he’d like. Normally I would have done more, and tinkered more on production, but rather Rick put the onus on me to deliver at a molecular level via live takes. The rest was simply a reaction.”
Ogilala is released via BMG, and Corgan tours the US and Canada later this year, as follows:
October
14, 15: Brooklyn, Murmrr Theatre
18: Wilmington, Grand Opera House
20: Toronto, Queen Elizabeth Theatre
24, 25: Chicago, Athenaeum Theatre
27: Nashville, CMA Theatre
29: Boulder, Boulder Theatre
November
1, 2: San Francisco, Herbst Theatre
9, 10, 11: Los Angeles, Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetary
Billy Corgan, playing a cemetery. Who’d have thunked. Listen to what is, still, the greatest Smashing Pumpkins LP of all time, 1993’s Siamese Dream, below. (@ us all you like, you know we're right.)