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Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe Smashing Pumpkins have confirmed a new studio album is on the way, teasing the forthcoming release with two new songs, “Cyr” and “The Color of Love,” which arrived Friday via Sumerian Records (full album release date is TBA).

teasing an impending announcement with countdown clocks earlier this month, Smashing Pumpkins have returned with new singles ‘Cyr’ and ‘The Colour of Love’.It’s the first new music from the alt-rock icons since 2018 album ‘Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past.

Smashing Pumpkins are teasing a new announcement, launching a series of countdown clocks on their website.The new countdown, which fans were alerted to via the band’s social media accounts, features five clocks, the first of which runs out in 12 days.The other clocks run out, respectively, in 33, 54, 75 and 96 days from now (August 15).

Billy Corgan is happy going solo, and he can be spectacular with his band.On Monday night's edition of The Tonight Show, Corgan went it alone for an acoustic performance from quarantine at home. Sporting a lockdown beard, Corgan performed “Hard Times,” an apt, country-flavored song lifted from his 2019 album Cotillions (as William Patrick Corgan).Perhaps another round of Smashing Pumpkins music isn’t too far away.

Yet another full-length will follow an upcoming double album

Smashing Pumpkins have announced a spring tour of the United States. The Rock Invasion 2 Tour takes place in April and May. The band will then play shows with Guns N’ Roses in July. Check out Smashing Pumpkins’ schedule below. Get tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

The band's 2018 LP 'Shiny and Oh So Bright...' "wasn't an album," the frontman says.

"I've been working on it for over a year"