The Smashing Pumpkins have released a new song titled “Chrome Jets.” The track was recorded during the sessions for the band’s latest album “Aghori Mhori Mei.”
Vocalist/guitarist Billy Corgan previously told Goldmine the following about the single:
“There’s a song that’s not on the record; it’s a b-side. We’ve held it aside, and it’s called ‘Chrome Jets‘, and it’ll probably come out at some point. But we were working in Nashville, it was me, Jimmy and a local bass player, who was just jamming with us, and I wrote this riff for the song ‘Chrome Jets‘ because I was kind of musing on the Sunset Strip music from the mid-’80s.
A lot of early hair metal had a lot to do with their interpretation of [’70s] glam. But it was a simplified version of glam; if you listen to Sweet in ’72 and some of the Sunset Strip bands in ’82, you can hear the connection. But it’s a simpler version, more metallic and a little heavier, but also not as complex.”
He also added:
“So, I was using that as a formula for maybe there being a way where we can kind of get back into earlier riff modality without over-intellectualizing what we do. Because that can be part of the problem, you start to over-intellectualize the riff if you’ve been around it for a while. Like, “What does the riff mean?” Sometimes, a riff is just a good riff. (laughs)
And [Black Sabbath’s] Tony Iommi is my absolute hero in that regard. Tony has a way of writing these riffs that seem bigger than the song. They sound like mountains to me; they just move in this celestial sphere. So, that song, ‘Chrome Jets‘, was really the watershed moment where I saw we could get back to making a primitive form of what we did. But more so based on our earlier thinking than trying to reverse engineer and pretend we can be 25 again. I know that’s way too convoluted, but honestly, that’s how it works.”
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