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It’s time for another batch of Splash! reviews from around them old interwebs. The Prog Report: Over its 51 minutes, ‘Splat’ traverses various diverse universes, from Rock to Blues, Pop to Celtic, Classical to AOR, and yes, there is even a little Prog sprinkled in here and there. Despite the conciseness of the songs, there […]
Read more »Deep Purple have returned to reign on Olympus of hard rock. Magnificent, one of the best Deep Purple records ever. It has everything inside: riffs, catchy melodies, groove, inspired solos, and guitar/keyboard duels. The BPM is generally high; the slow pace of many — too many — mid-tempo songs from the Morse era is a […]
Read more »Blues Rock Review reviews Splat! in absolutely glowing terms: As AI inexcusably blitzes a forgettable culture of monotonous mediocrity, Deep Purple auspiciously land with a balls-to-the-wall Splat! to the good old days. This is what you call ‘musicality’ kids. If a band that spacetrucked and highway starred in the 70s can still produce songs this […]
Read more »The new album Splat! is technically still a few hours away, and it seems like everybody and their dogs are reviewing it. Ultimate Classic Rock: There’s no theme here per se, but Gillan does populate the songs with cautionary tales and characters falling from grace, some reflection on aging and tongue-in-cheek macho posturing (“I’m a […]
Read more »DEEP PURPLE – SPLAT! – review by Marcin Karski (Thorsun) „The sum of the parts is bigger and more significant, than the parts themselves.” It’s an old saying we most know, but that does apply mightily to the new Deep Purple album. As it always is with new records, we fall in love with only […]
Read more »Rock & Blues Muse reviews the new album Splat! in most glowing terms. Deep Purple has created a complex, heavy, and instantly sonically recognizable album that, along with peers like Alice Cooper (another Ezrin client), respects and nods to their sound while never slavishly imitating it. More interestingly, these songs are built around a theme, […]
Read more »German magazine GoodTimes has Deep Purple on the cover of their issue #3/2026, with a feature story inside. The magazine also reviews Splat! in their blog online: Following the philosophical approach of their 2024 album =1, Deep Purple have once again taken a conceptual approach to the lyrics on SPLAT!. But as with its predecessor, […]
Read more »Meanwhile, Classic Rock reviews another family box set — Rainbow’s The Temple Of The King 1975-76: The tour rehearsal material, for all its historical value, is ruined by too much bass and distortion. But across six live discs – with just a little overlap with the band’s 1977 album On Stage – there is much […]
Read more »Get Ready to Rock reviews the upcoming Ian Gillan Band box set Down The Road: The Complete Ian Gillan Band Story, now due out apparently at the end of March. Another wonderful package, two fold out card cases with a 7” booklet that is well annotated. Bonus artwork includes both UK and Japanese editions of […]
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