The Smashing Pumpkins have been busy of late, touring and promoting their new album Oceania. But now they are ready to begin working on a brand new album.
Earlier this week frontman Billy Corgan announced on Twitter that the band will begin writing on it:
"Excited to announce today's our 1st official day of writing for new SP album. Wish us luck!" he wrote.
In an unrelated recent interview with Gibson, Corgan explained where the Pumpkins get their sound from:
"I think if you want to get the Gibson end of the Pumpkins sound, you take any amp that has a pretty good pre-amp in it, and the treble is probably not going to go any higher than about 3 o'clock. You want the treble on 2 or 3 o'clock. You don't want the highs too cranky. You want to scoop the mids a bit, so the mids are probably somewhere in the range of 10 o'clock, and then the bass is in the range of 3 o'clock."
There is no word yet on when the new album is scheduled to drop.
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