The Smashing Pumpkins have dropped two new songs: “Cyr” and “The Colour of Love.”

Both songs are a bit more synth-heavy than you might expect from the ’90s alt-rock heroes — “Cyr” in particular has a very dance-y, gothic, Depeche Mode-esque vibe. You can download both tracks now via digital outlets.

“‘Cyr’ is dystopic folly,” says frontman Billy Corgan. “One soul against the world sort of stuff, set against a backdrop of shifting loyalties and sped up time. To me it stands as both hopeful and dismissive of what is and isn’t possible with faith.”

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The two tracks mark the first previews of an upcoming new Smashing Pumpkins album, the details of which will be “revealed soon,” a press release promises. The effort will follow 2018’s Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1/LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., which marked the first Pumpkins record in nearly 20 years to feature founding members Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.

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