The Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun was the band's tenth studio album and was originally released on November 16, 2018 through Napalm Records.
Produced by Rick Rubin, it is the band's first album to feature founding members James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin since Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music (2000) and Zeitgeist (2007).
In true Pumpkins fashion, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 defies expectations. Billed as a reunion album, with original members Jimmy Chamberlin and James Iha back in the fold, the nostalgically-inclined were hoping for a “return to form.” This is not that. Circling back to repeat is antithetical to the core spirit of the world's greatest alt-rock band.
Instead this is a damn good modern classic rock album, one that evokes elements of what made us fall in love with Billy Corgan's vision and his chemistry with his incredibly talented bandmates in the first place, while embracing all of the growth and changes a songwriter of his age and experience has undergone.