Album · 2012
Oceania
Oceania is an album by The Smashing Pumpkins, released in 2012 on Martha’s Music, LLC, with 13 tracks.
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13 tracks · 60 min
Album · 2012
Oceania is an album by The Smashing Pumpkins, released in 2012 on Martha’s Music, LLC, with 13 tracks.
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13 tracks · 60 min
Oceania is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on June 19, 2012 on EMI and Martha's Music. Produced by Billy Corgan and Bjorn Thorsrud, the album is part of the band's ongoing 44-song concept album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. On April 26, 2011, in a video on the band's Facebook fanpage, frontman Billy Corgan announced plans to release Oceania as "an album within an album," relating to Teargarden by Kaleidyscope which involved releasing songs one by one, for free on the Internet from late 2009, and then releasing them in EPs - after claiming that albums are a dead medium. While Oceania may appear to contradict that, Corgan explains: "I still stand by my view that I don't think albums are particularly relevant at this time. That may change. But as far as making music...from a writing point of view, it's really going to focus me to put a group of songs together that are supposed to go together." Corgan later admitted that they switched back to the album format because he "...reached a point where I saw that the one-song-at-a-time idea had maxed itself out...I just saw we weren't getting the penetration in to everybody that I wou…