Deep Purple - Woosh!

Deep Purple's 21st studio album will be released on June 12 via earMUSIC. Whoosh! will be available as Limited CD+DVD Mediabook, 2LP+DVD Edition, Limited Box Set and Digital Version, and is available for pre-order here. https://www.deeppurple-whoosh.com/?fbclid=IwAR2AQSLCxxiIpgugfEzE8dcpWFO--0eRQrXiULx21LRvTEPG9uAIehTHlk0

Whoosh! follows their worldwide chart-topping albums inFinite (2017) and NOW What?! (2013). After the suspense and speculations among the fan community created by cryptic messages and interviews by singer Ian Gillan during last December, the band finally confirms the release.

For the third time, Deep Purple join forces with producer Bob Ezrin, who invited the band to Nashville to write and record new songs. Together they created the most versatile album in their collaboration. Deep Purple “stretched out in all directions” without any limitation, letting their creativity go. “Deep Purple is putting the Deep back into Purple” was the half-joking motto in the studio after the first songs made it clear that Ezrin and Purple were on their path to creating an album pushing the boundaries of time, while voicing their resentment about the current situation of the world and addressing all generations.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Steve Morse and Don Airey continue to travel the scope of hard rock - the textures and nuances of their recent works are anything but thudding re-treads. If you set a random play setting for the band’s entire catalogue, the result is one of the finest musical outputs to grace rock music. The band’s 20th studio album, inFinite, has become one of their most successful albums ever. It broke chart records accumulated by the hard rock legends over an impressive 50-year history, becoming their highest charting album worldwide since their milestone 1984 reunion album Perfect Strangers. It entered the German Official Album Charts at #1, having been awarded Gold for over 100.000 copies sold and, moreover, reached the Top 10 in an impressive number of 10 countries worldwide. It followed the release of NOW What?! (2013), which charted at #1 in 5 European countries, the Top 10 in over 15 countries worldwide and earned Gold Status in Germany for over 100,000 copies sold. In recent years, Deep Purple has progressively moved into new areas, piquing the interest of fans who were not born when the mighty Purple machine ruled the music world. Their holy grail of In Rock (1970), Machine Head (1972) and Made In Japan (1973) catapulted Deep Purple to the top in concert grosses and album sales around the world, with tracks such as “Smoke On The Water” ascending them to mega-status.  

“I‘ve been asked a lot: Is this our last album? I remember when we did Now What?! which is now what… 8 years ago? And then we did InFinite or Infinite and Don was asked is this the last album? He said: 'I thought the last album was the last album'." - Roger Glover

Whoosh! tracklisting:

"Throw My Bones"
"Drop The Weapon"
"We're All The Same In The Dark"
"Nothing At All"
"No Need To Shout"
"Step By Step"
"What the What"
"The Long Way Around"
"The Power of the Moon"
"Remission Possible"
"Man Alive"
"And the Address"
"Dancing In My Sleep"

Cool. Glad that Bob Ezrin is still working with them. Always delivers an amazing tone.

Man i loved their latest output. I will be buying this one.

Awesome, I'll be eagerly awaiting this one. I can't say I've been anticipating a new Deep Purple album in a long time, but after seeing them live for the first time last year I was reawakened to the brilliance of the current lineup.

Cool! The last few have been really good, so expectations are pretty high. I wonder if the title is a reference to the air conditioner unit turning on before Fireball? Haha!

I'm sure it'll be a good album, but that album cover just reminds me of Infinity War.
"Mr. Gillan, I dont feel so good,,"

I've been binge-ing on their output for the first time ever really, so I'm kinda excited for a new album to happen while I'm heavily into them. I haven't listened to anything past the early 90s yet.

Very cool, have all their studio albums and will be grabbing this album as well

This track is just OK, not what I was expecting.

I heard this one. Nothing ground breaking, but it's classic purple. Good job!

Glad that, in 2020, Deep Purple are still releasing a new studio album.

I’m astounded that Gillan’s voice is still up to par !
Never say die ! He’s always been superb.

Can't say I dig the single all that much, but I'm still looking forward to the album.

Meh. I think I've got enough Deep Purple in my collection without adding this one to the list. Cheers to them for keepin' on though.

Honestly, I liked the video more than the song. I fell as though Purple has become less of a singles band and more of a complete album band since around Purpendicular. It all seems average to pretty darn good, where nothing really knocks me over where, if I were dropping the needle on In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, or Stormbringer as new releases. I would feel differently. There would be 3,4,5 amazing all time greats and a few other real good tracks.

Yeah that track doesn't do a lot for me either although it's not terrible; I think it would be a little better without all the synth.

That's a great song. I love it.

Wow that song is rather weak.

tohostudios wrote:

Yeah that track doesn't do a lot for me either although it's not terrible; I think it would be a little better without all the synth.

But that's Don Airey! Jon Lord's "hand picked" replacement! That...that's all I got.

I just read that the release date for this one's getting pushed back until August cuz of the virus. It would be nice to hold a physical copy in hand and then purchase it. There is talk of (here in the States, anyway) of the Postal service shutting down by June cuz of funding. Hopefully, stores are re opened by then.

the sentinel wrote:

I just read that the release date for this one's getting pushed back until August cuz of the virus. It would be nice to hold a physical copy in hand and then purchase it. There is talk of (here in the States, anyway) of the Postal service shutting down by June cuz of funding. Hopefully, stores are re opened by then.

I so miss going to a record store...

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