The Smashing Pumpkins have finally released the first track off their forthcoming album, Monuments to an Elegy. The track is called “Being Beige” and it’s the latest bit of material to come out of the Kaleidyscope project. The music starts off low-key with just some acoustic guitar and a digital drum machine beat behind Billy Corgan’s vocals but it soon erupts as a full comes in. A good thing to note is that the drums come courtesy of Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee.
The new album is due out December 9th and it’s the latest part of Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, the super-album that began with 2010’s Songs for a Sailor and will conclude with 2015’s Day for Night, the last installment being 2012’s Oceania.
Hear it now below.
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