The Smashing Pumpkins To Reissue 'Pisces Iscariot'
Monday, 02 July 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
EMI Music’s extensive reissue campaign honouring the legacy of The Smashing Pumpkins continues on July 16th - with the reissue of ‘Pisces Iscariot’.
The iconic, platinum-certified disc that reached #4 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart has received the full remastering and re-mixing treatment for the first time since it hit shelves in 1994. and follows last year’s acclaimed reissues of the band’s groundbreaking first two albums ‘Gish’ and ‘Siamese Dream’.
“A collection of odds and orphans from the dusky realms of Pumpkinland” is how Pumpkins main man Billy Corgan describes ‘Pisces Iscariot’ in the liner notes penned by David Wild. “Pisces Iscariot was the little mix tape that went platinum,” writes Wild. “This unlikely smash album that some came to mistake for the Pumpkins’ third studio effort even yielded a hit single - another wonderfully odd moment in the landslide that was the intense early success story of Smashing Pumpkins.”
Featuring the band’s take on the Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks song ‘Landslide’ - which reached #3 on Modern Rock Tracks chart - ‘Pisces Iscariot’ is being released in multiple configurations - a Deluxe Physical Album, which comes with a live DVD and the first-ever Pumpkins demo reproduced on cassette, Deluxe Digital, Standard Physical, Digital and 180g Vinyl. The bonus content and special features were curated from the band’s archives by Corgan, and have been painstakingly remastered for the first time from the original master tapes by Bob Ludwig.
With the full support and guidance from The Smashing Pumpkins - who’ve created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history, selling over 30 million albums - EMI’s global catalog reissue campaign will last through 2013. The pivotal group’s many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation.
As The Smashing Pumpkins get the fully remastered treatment via these reissues, the band is excited to be moving forward by creating new music. On June 19, the band released ‘Ocenia’ via Martha’s Music/EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution. Marking The Smashing Pumpkins’ 7th studio record, it is ‘an album within an album,’ part of their 44-song work-in-progress ‘Teargarden by Kaleidyscope’.
The album hits shelves on July 16th - you can check out the band’s website here.
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