New Smashing Pumpkins album 'Oceania' announced

The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a released date for their first new material since 2007's 'Zeitgeist' album.

'Oceania' will be released on the 19th June through EMI in the U.S. The Pumpkins had been slowly releasing 44 tracks individually, and ‘Oceania’ is intended to exist as a standalone project within the larger concept.

Frontman Bill Corgan told Billboard.com "I reached a point where I saw that the one-song-at-a-time idea had maxed itself out. I just saw that we weren't reaching the sort of casual person who still gets their information from traditional sources. So I thought, 'What do I need to do?' and then I thought, 'OK, I'll go back to making an album.' "

The Pumpkins have been recently reissuing early albums with ‘Gish’ and ‘Siamese Dream’ in late 2011, with a remastered version of ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’. 1996 box-set ‘The Aeroplane Flies High’ and 1998’s ‘Adore’ expected later in the year.