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Pumpkins Release Posthumous New Album 'Machina II'

Hey, we here at TuneVault.com think we're pretty hip to what's going on in the music scene, so I don't know how we missed this one, especially being big Pumpkins fans. Seems as of last September the Pumpkins released a new album, Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music and it's available for free download from the official Pumpkins web site and many other places. What follows is an explanation from spfc.org, the Smashing Pumpkins Fan Collaborative web site:

A followup to Machina, and the last album from the band. As a final farewell, and a "fuck you" to a record label that didn't give them the support they deserved, a limited pressing album was made (3x10" + 2LP, 5 discs total) and given away to be bootlegged out among the fans.

All tracks are completely new/unheard, except for Real Love, which appears to be the same as the one found on the "Friends & Enemies" 60m cassette>bootleg, and Le Deux Machina, which is the same synth version as found on the acoustic machina demos.

Just to clear up any possible confusion, this is the final album from the band. There are 25 copies. There will not be a CD pressing.

For a list of download sites, see the article at http://www.spfc.org/news-press/articles.html?content_id=1302

NOTE: the above notes were written by SPFC and do NOT actually appear in the liner notes of the vinyl release. In fact, the only text which appears anywhere is ch5/the story of june (so far) - there are no credits, tracklists, or any other notes printed anywhere on the release. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.