DEEP PURPLE today (June 24) have released their new single “Guilt Trippin’”—just days ahead of the worldwide release of their highly anticipated new studio album SPLAT! out July 3 on earMUSIC.
“Guilt Trippin’” begins with a deceptively gentle piano intro and soon bursts into one of SPLAT!’s most unpredictable and exhilarating moments—featuring one of Ian Gillan’s most memorable vocal performances on the album. Behind the music lies another one of SPLAT!’s wonderfully bizarre stories: “Guilt Trippin’” imagines God and Charles Darwin sharing a drink in a pub, reflecting on how things on earth have not exactly worked out according to plan. The accompanying video follows a fly and a sycamore-seed spaceship on a wild ride through the increasingly absurd and dreamlike world of SPLAT!.
“The song starts, and I’m in the studio. I don’t have any words for it yet,” Ian Gillan explains. “So I just start screaming. It was the pure joy of yelling it. I vowed when I was 40 that I’d stop screaming by the time I was 60. Now I’m looking back and thinking, ‘Whatever happened to that?’ So we’ll give it a go.”
DEEP PURPLE—Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey, and Simon McBride—are currently on a major run of European summer dates before the SPLAT! World Tour heads to North America. Tickets are available via Deep Purple’s official website.
SPLAT! has already received enthusiastic first fan and media reactions, with early press praising the album’s DEEP PURPLE spirit. Uncut calls SPLAT! “distilled, high-octane Purple at its finest,” while Classic Rock praises the album for delivering “everything that makes Deep Purple one of the greatest acts in hard rock.”
SPLAT! is available for pre-order in multiple formats including CD, vinyl, and limited editions. Further exclusive fan items are only available on the official SPLAT! shop.
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