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As AI inexcusably blitzes a forgettable culture of monotonous mediocrity, Deep Purple auspiciously land with a balls-to-the-wall Splat! to the good old days. This is what you call ‘musicality’ kids. If a band that spacetrucked and highway starred in the 70s can still produce songs this energetic and euphoric in their 70’s, there lies a greater hope that rock ‘n’ roll can keep sticking two fingers up to those vociferating for its obituary.
Rather ironically, this conceptual record explores the end of humanity. But not in the dire, terminal apocalyptic flaunt its oddly, onomatopoetic title suggests. Instead, it dissects the transformational finale of humanity, with frontman Ian Gillan envisioning it as a metaphor for our race metamorphosing into a metaphysical state, similar to butterflies.
With songs like the busty boom of “Jessica’s Bra” (born from an unfortunate type of the word ‘bar’) and the dizzying chorus hook on “The Only Horse In Town” (which sees Gillan’s lyrics gallop into a conversation between a man and a horse), it’s not the easiest hypothesis to deconstruct.
But who cares? The music is as heavy and wild as classic Deep Purple, yet still fresh and vital. There’s no denying this lineup works exceptionally well.=1 was the band enjoying a renaissance, but this is the sound of five gents upping the fun and fire — roaring, purring, and as explosive as they’ve ever been.
While there’s no sprawling, drawn-out epics, most tracks crack along at a rousing pace. Everywhere you turn, there are speedy, virtuosic instrumental passages, rollicking dialogue between the guitars and organ, and of course, the original vocalist, drummer, and bassist all agelessly strutting their stuff.
The interlude on lead single “Arrogant Boy” is one of the best things I’ve heard in years. It’s fresh, tight, and unmistakably DP. Jon Lord will live in the heart of all Deep Purple fans, but the ingenious keyboard skills of Don Airey never fail to amaze, with his Hammond solo on the devilishly good riffing of “Diablo” a personal highlight.
The exhilarating “Guilt Trippin’” might be their finest work this millennium, as a graceful jazzy piano intro is met by the evergreen Gillan unleashing some signature banshee wails, before the track descends into peak cosmic chaos. It’s the closest we get to the proggy side of Purple, but amid the titanic keyboard/guitar solo duels, there’s still room aplenty for the three pillars to shine.
Roger Glover’s fluid bassline on the funky “The Beating of Wings” matches MacBride’s fire-breathing tone, giving the band a truly incredible and vibrant energy, while one of rock’s greatest sticksman Iain Paice effortlessly pounds the skins on another pulsating shift in “Third Call.”
These aren’t men who are merely coasting on past glories. They still have a lot to say, yet absolutely zilch to prove. The new songs, musicianship, and the production (huge credit to Bob Ezrin) are top-class.
Splat! will hit you square in the face and you’ll feel all the better for it.
The Review: 9/10
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Haunt meTake everythingEverything you want from meWon’t let me beSo far gone
To want someone who is bad for you is to kneel before a beautiful fire crackling in the dark, place your hand in the flame, and mistake the burning for proof that the feeling is real. Desire can turn into a kind of faith, where every wound becomes scripture, every absence an altar, every small kindness a false resurrection. The mind, desperate to make suffering mean something, mistakes the pain for depth and possession for devotion. This kind of fixation survives because beauty keeps excusing the damage. It teaches the heart to confuse ruin with revelation, to believe that being hurt by someone is proof that the feeling is profound. You know this person is poison, yet the poison gives your longing a shape. That is the torture: part of you sees the cage, names the bars, and still polishes them until they shine.
The song treats fixation as a glamourous disease, which is exactly how fixation likes to dress. The lyrics circle someone beautiful, dangerous, and emotionally carnivorous, a figure who drains the speaker while still looking too good to resist. That contradiction gives the track its charge: desire as bad judgment with perfume on its collar, attraction as a trap you help assemble because the trap knows your name. The repeated title becomes less a hook than a diagnosis, the phrase hammered until pleasure and threat start sharing the same lipstick.
Gutierrez sings with the kind of authority that keeps the drama from sliding into diary-page melodrama. There are echoes of Shirley Manson in the cool steel of her delivery, Curve in the humid electronic pressure, and Sneaker Pimps in the way pop menace slips through the machinery without asking permission. Yet her voice belongs to the present tense, alive with command, appetite, and a bruising clarity that cuts through the synths rather than floating above them.
E builds the track like a club machine with a beating gothic heart, letting house and techno discipline the ache until the whole cut moves with predatory elegance. The rhythm keeps pushing forward while the melody tightens around the throat, and the result feels lush, mean, and wonderfully unsafe.
The video, filmed by Brennan Moring and Bella Petro at Victory Studios in Seattle, turns that danger into an explosive performance piece set in hyperspace, with Gutierrez framed amid blooming flowers as if romance itself has learned to detonate. Dark Chisme understands that beauty can be bait, and here they make the bite feel almost worth the scar.
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XCalibre are delivering a double dose of hard rock goodness, with the dual release today of the album X Deluxe and the single DEAD2ME. Following the overwhelming success of X when it was released earlier this year, XCalibre and the team at XMusic have decided to set it free on the world once more, but […]