The Smashing Pumpkins Mine ’90s Sound With ‘Sighommi’ Performance On ‘Kimmel’
Watch the band play the song from their recently issued 13th album, Aghori Mhori Mei.
By Andy Kahn Sep 18, 2024 • 9:34 am PDT
The Smashing Pumpkins used a day off from touring to swing by Los Angeles to appear on Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The seminal 1990s alternative rockers roared their way through a performance of “Sighommi” from their recently released 13th album, Aghori Mhori Mei.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman said in an interview with Rayo that the new album “very much sounds like the Siamese Dream / Mellon Collie version of the band” referencing The Smashing Pumpkins’ lauded 1990s albums. One of 10 new original songs making up the Aghori Mhori Mei tracklist, “Sighommi” was issued as a single shortly after the follow-up to 2023’s Atrum arrived in early August.
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Further detailing the present album’s sound, Corgan stated:
“In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again.’ Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”
The Smashing Pumpkins tour in support of Aghori Mhori Mei continues tonight with Green Day (who appeared on Tuesday's Kimmel episode), Rancid and The Linda Lindas at Chase Field in Phoenix. Watch their performance of “Sighommi” on Jimmy Kimmel Live:
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