DEEP PURPLE RELEASE NEW SINGLE & VIDEO, ‘GUILT TRIPPIN’ is out now!
Deep Purple release their new single Guilt Trippin’ today - just days ahead of the worldwide release of their highly anticipated new studio album SPLAT! on July 3rd.
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What begins with a deceptively gentle piano intro soon bursts into one of SPLAT!’s most unpredictable and exhilarating moments - and one of Ian Gillan’s most memorable vocal performances on the album. Ian Gillan on recording Guilt Trippin’: “The song starts, and I’m in the studio. I don’t have any words for it yet. 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.” 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!. Deep Purple 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! will be released on July 3rd on earMUSIC and 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.
