The Smashing Pumpkins – Aghori Mhori Mei – Indie Exclusive Vinyl Record

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The Smashing Pumpkins – Aghori Mhori Mei – Indie Exclusive Vinyl Record

Aghori Mhori Mei brings the Smashing Pumpkins back to the sound of guitars, bass, drums, and Billy Corgan's unmistakable voice. Released in 2024, the ten-song album follows the much larger Atum project with a more concentrated set of material. Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin are the original members at its center, and their shared history is apparent in the way a riff can become something more complicated once Chamberlin starts working around it. The record reconnects with the band's heavier early sound while giving these musicians new songs to inhabit.

Edin opens with the weight and space to establish that approach. The guitar parts are substantial, but the drums do more than reinforce their accents: Chamberlin can make a heavy passage feel mobile, adding movement beneath music that might otherwise become rigid. Pentagrams continues the album's interest in extended, changing arrangements, while Sighommi gives the band a more compact setting. Corgan's melodic instincts remain important in both forms. Even when the guitars dominate, the vocal line supplies another route through the song, keeping the music from becoming solely an exercise in volume or density.

The quieter moments matter just as much to the Pumpkins' identity. Pentecost and Who Goes There leave room for another side of Corgan's writing, giving the album relief from its more forceful passages without losing its atmosphere. This has always been a useful part of the band's vocabulary: the musicians can pull back far enough for a melody to become exposed, then make the return of heavier instrumentation count. On Aghori Mhori Mei, those changes happen within a ten-song program, so the contrast is easy to hear without following the larger narrative framework of Atum.

War Dreams of Itself and Sicarus return to the band's harder edge, while Goeth the Fall brings a more immediately tuneful character into the second half. The song titles and Corgan's language retain their own peculiar world, but the instrumental setting is direct enough to make the album approachable on musical terms alone. Iha's guitar presence and Chamberlin's rhythmic detail give the writing an ensemble character. A recognizably Pumpkins melody can sit above a dense arrangement, then find a different shape when the band changes the space around it.

Murnau closes the record with room for the dramatic side of Corgan's songwriting. Its place at the end suits an album that can be heavy without staying at one level of intensity. For listeners whose favorite Pumpkins records balance substantial guitar work with melodic and atmospheric passages, Aghori Mhori Mei offers a clear connection to those interests. The appeal comes from hearing Corgan, Iha, and Chamberlin apply that vocabulary to new material rather than simply revisit an old set of songs. The indie-store edition presents the complete ten-track album and includes the edition's exclusive art print.

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Release Details

Artist

The Smashing Pumpkins

Album

Aghori Mhori Mei

Format

Indie Exclusive Vinyl Record

Number of vinyl records

1

Original album release

2024

Track Listing

Edin

Pentagrams

Sighommi

Pentecost

War Dreams of Itself

Who Goes There

999

Goeth the Fall

Sicarus

Murnau