Billy Corgan announces Rick Rubin-produced solo album, "Ogilala"

Rocker Billy Corgan has multiple projects in the works: a new Smashing Pumpkins album, several archival releases, a memoir and - possibly - a reunion of Smashing Pumpkins’ classic lineup. But he's also planningis a new Corgan solo album, produced by the guru Rick Rubin. The album is called "Ogilala", features eight tracks and is due out onOctober 13th.

The first single, a lush piano- and- string ballad called “Aeronaut”, can be streamed below:

In a statement, Corgan commented:

For as long as I can remember the delineation point between songs I wrote for myself and songs I’d pen for whatever band was something I couldn’t explain. And it remains so, for they all feel quite personal to me, no matter their time orera. The lone difference on songs for Ogilala is that they seemed to want little in the way of adornment. Having written the songs for voice and guitar, I put myself in Rick’s hands to take the music wherever he’d like. Normally I would have done more, and tinkered more on production, but rather Rick put the onus on me to deliver at a molecular level via live takes. The rest was simply a reaction.