Aghori Mhori Mei is the thirteenth album by the Smashing Pumpkins released on August 2, 2024, via Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers.
After last year’s 33-track, Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, the Pumpkins‘ latest Aghori Mhori Mei spans just ten tracks.
Billy Corgan released a statement explaining that the band attempted to replicate the recording process of their previous albums when they entered the studio to write Aghori Mhori Mei.
“Writing this new album, I was intrigued by the hackneyed axiom that ‘you can’t go home again’. Which I personally found to be true in form, but I thought well, what if we tried it anyway? Not so much to look back in sentimentality, but more as a means of moving forward; to see if in the balance between success and failure our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”
Aghori Mhori Mei is the Pumpkins’ first album since the departure of longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder, who has been replaced on tour by Kiki Wong. The band is currently on tour with Green Day playing shows across North America and will be heading to South America for a run of dates in November 2024.
Corgan also took to X to share a lengthy statement about the album, revealing Aghori Mhori Mei will be released digitally with no singles.
Tracklist:
- Edin
- Pentagrams
- Sighommi
- Pentecost
- War Dreams of Itself
- Who Goes There
- 999
- Goeth the Fall
- Sicarus
- Murnau
