Smashing Pumpkins unveil details of new album, plus a damn catchy song

The world is a vampire, sent to drain / the Smashing Pumpkins, of songs that don’t sound the same
So what do we get, for our pain? / Fulfilled desires, for new tracks that kinda bang [contort your pronunciation so that it works, the way 2 Chainz would]

Look, each time the reunited Pumpkins release a new track, we’re here, ready and willing to make some more Alex Jones jokes and reference that great time Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil called bullshit on young Mr. Corgan to his face. But the thing is, “Solara” was pretty decent, some mixing issues aside, and now, to accompany the details of the group’s new album, they’ve released an even better song, “Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts),” that is just straight-up catchy. Not quite “1979"-level catchy, but close—probably because it’s a simple twist on that basic musical formula, a clear case of “stick with what works.” Still, this new material is coming along better than anyone not named Billy Corgan (sorry, William “Cool Capes” Patrick Corgan) expected, and we are on board for it.