The Smashing Pumpkins reveal a special edition of their album “Gish”

The Smashing Pumpkins‘ platinum-selling 1991 first album “Gish” will be available in a new 35th anniversary vinyl version on May 29, as per theprp. The alternative rock sensations will release their debut full-length album on 180-gram vinyl in a variety of colorways. Pre-orders can be placed right now by clicking this link.

Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D’arcy Wretzky, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin founded the American alternative rock group The Smashing Pumpkins in Chicago in 1988. Since their 2006 reunion, the band has had multiple lineup changes, but Corgan has remained the main songwriter and the only consistent member since the beginning. Chamberlin, Iha, and Corgan make up the current lineup. The band is renowned for its multifaceted, intricately layered sound, which has developed over the course of their career and incorporates elements of progressive rock, psychedelic rock, heavy metal, grunge, gothic rock, shoegaze, dream pop, and electronica.

“Gish”, the band’s 1991 debut album, was warmly reviewed by reviewers and went on to become an underground hit. Their popularity was cemented by their second album, “Siamese Dream” (1993), which came out just before the breakthrough of alternative rock. The album was widely praised and has been hailed as one of the best in the genre, despite a turbulent recording process. The band’s success was further enhanced with their third album, “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” (1995), which debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, was certified a Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and continued to garner positive reviews. Internal strife, drug usage, and declining sales toward the end of the 1990s caused the group to break up after the release of “Adore” in 1998 and a two-part project called “Machina” and “Machina II” in 2000.

The Smashing Pumpkins were a major contributor to the popularization of alternative rock and one of the most critically and commercially successful bands of the 1990s, with 30 million albums sold worldwide.