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Listening to lead track Aeronaut immediately backs up Billy Corgan‘s belief that the songs written for his next solo album needed ‘little in the way of adornment’.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman will release Ogilala, a collaboration with Rick Rubin, under his Sunday name William Patrick Corgan on October 13th. “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,” he’s said.
“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 tracklist:
Zowie
Processional
The Spaniards
Aeronaut
The Long Goodbye
Half-Life Of An Autodidact
Amarinthe
Antietam
Mandaryne
Shiloh
Archer