Sumerian Records have revealed the details of a new tribute to the generational genius of The Smashing Pumpkins, with plenty of stars taking on their classics.
‘Sending Hearts To All My Dearies – A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins’ is set for release on August 14 and has been co-signed personally titled by Billy Corgan. It is made up of 15 songs from across the band’s career covered by some of Sumerian’s family and beyond.
The tracklisting looks like this:
1. Tame Impala – Hummer
2. Yonaka – Today
3. The Midnight – Tonight, Tonight
4. Carpenter Brut – Cherub Rock
5. Barns Courtney – 1979
6. Meg Myers – Eye
7. Palaye Royale – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
8. Between The Buried and Me – Jellybelly
9. Alice Glass – Drown
10. Starbenders – Tonight, Tonight
11. Nita Strauss – 1979
12. Bones UK – Cherub Rock
13. Moon Taxi – Thirty Three
14. Des Rocs – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
15. Urban Heat – Ava Adore
And the artwork looks like this:
The first taster of the tribute is out now as well, and it is the opening track. That is a take on ‘Hummer’, the beautifully tranquil epic from 1993’s ‘Siamese Dream’. Delivering their own version of it is none other than Tame Impala, who take the woozy and kaleidoscopic tendancies of the original and ramp them up tenfold.
Kevin Parker had this to say about it:
“Siamese Dream was the soundtrack to my high school years and ‘Hummer’ is the song that takes me back there in the most potent way.”
