Deep Purple Share Third Song From Forthcoming Album

 

Deep Purple have released a third single called “Guilt Trippin’”— just days ahead of the worldwide release of their new studio album SPLAT! out July 3 on earMUSIC. You can watch the video below.

“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.”

Gillan and bandmates 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. 

For more info on the new album and tour dates, head over to deeppurple.com.