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There’s no reason to stop
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, albeit one difficult to unpack. Liner notes clarify that frontman Gillan devised an end of humanity concept, “not in any crude apocalyptic sense but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.”
With that in mind, these wordy, occasional verbose and even rambling songs are a million miles removed from the simplicity of describing a hot car as a “Highway Star” or being too “Lazy” to get out of bed, to name check a few previous, more easily digestible touch-points.
Those intrigued enough can try to follow this saga along with the lyrics. But the songs are so musically muscular, driving, well-crafted and played with an excess of talent and precision, that the intricate, some might say head-scratching, story will be secondary.
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