The Smashing Pumpkins are more than halfway home on their first album since 2000, according to posts from drummer Jimmy Chamberlin on the group’s MySpace.com site. “We have been working day and night in the studio and I am happy to say that the drums are finished!,” he wrote earlier this month. “After almost a year of work, to finally sit down and listen to the drum takes, one after another, was a truly joyful experience.”
Last week, he chronicled a “magnificent guitar symphony” from Billy Corgan featuring “eight guitars resonating in one big harmonic handshake. It is still ringing in my ears this morning.”
His posts carefully worded to avoid any mention of song titles or acknowledgement of who, if anybody, is working with he and Corgan in the studio, Chamberlin has also thanked “the Grateful Dead, Rush [and] Billy Thorpe for their guidance in this hour of need.”
“I can honestly say that this has been one of the most musically satisfying and spiritually rewarding trips I have ever been on,” he added.
Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Terry Date, the as-yet-untitled album is expected in late spring, with a tour to follow. No label affiliation has yet been announced; Corgan has released all of his post-Pumpkins work on Reprise.
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