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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have just released their new, “A Song For A Son” tune online for free as the first taste of their upcoming new album TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE, a 44-song work that is being recorded now. “A Song For A Son” is available via AOL Music’s Spinner.com as an online exclusive and can be downloaded for free starting tonight at midnight via the band's new website, SmashingPumpkins.com.
As Pumpkins leader BILLY CORGAN has said about the album, which will be released one song a time until all 44 tracks are out: “Each song will be made available absolutely for free (though some periodically released EPs will be sold, with a full boxed set eventulally released), to anyone anywhere. There will be no strings attached. Free will mean free, which means you won’t have to sign up for anything, give an email address, or jump through a hoop. You will be able to go and take the song or songs as you wish, as many times as you wish.”
“A Song For A Son” is emblematic of the entire collection of music, which CORGAN has said “harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins; atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty.” TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE will be issued independently (release date TBA) now that the band are free agents, and the Pumpkins are planning a world tour slated for spring 2010. TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE, Corgan has said, “is based on ‘The Fool’s Journey,’ as signified in the progress of the Tarot, the intention is to approach the work by breaking down the journey of life into four phases as made by different characters depicted in major arcana cards: the Child, the Fool, the Skeptic and the Mystic.”
Check out the new tune @ Spinner.com , and let us know what you think of it...
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