Magnetic Fields Reveal Cover Art For Distortion

Courtesy of ye olde Stereogum. Listen to first single "Three Way" here.

(Jonathan Graef)

New Smashing Pumpkins Cover Art

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Personally speaking, I like the cover a lot, though I am very much skeptical of a Pumpkins reunion album on the whole. It's got a Planet of the Apes (Heston's version, not Tim Burton's dubious remake) meets USSR propaganda feel to it. The statue of liberty drowning is very creepy and definitely evocative of our current political and social climate. Or, to put it using the parlance of our times, it's Zeitgeist-tastic.

And yes, I should have posted an mp3 of "Drown," but alas, I could not find one.

(Jonathan Graef)