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Free music is sweet. Forty-four free brand new Smashing Pumpkins songs is even better. Frontman Billy Corgan revealed news on his website last week that the band will be releasing their new, enormous album via free downloads in a series of releases starting this October.

Though the songs are part of an album called Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, they will not be released in a bundle. Instead, the song will begin popping up on the website around Halloween and 11 four-song “mini-boxset” EPs will be released to the public. Once all 44 songs are up, a full box-set will be assembled. These boxsets will be available for sale, in some cases with exclusive demos attached.

Corgan has always been something of a maverick in the way of online music, beating Radiohead to the punch when he released Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music for free back in 2000, Pitchfork reports.

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The Smashing Pumpkins’ official website, which has offered little information on the group’s purported reunion, has just released a small tidbit of information.

According to a very brief posting, the band is currently working with producer Roy Thomas Baker.

He is likely best known for producing a number of Queen albums/tracks (including “Bohemian Rhapsody”). Baker has also worked extensively with The Cars, and recently with The Darkness.

No other information about the return of the Pumpkins has been released, including the group’s new (or returning) members, aside from front-man Billy Corgan.

There is no release date — or even a release year — for the project, either.