Amazing unspent

With "Purpendicular" have the old warriors to Jon Lord and Ian Gillan, just at a time than is generally assumed that the chapter "Deep Purple" is history by the final exit Richie Blackmore, a hitherto completely unknown ease in their music packed.

The relief of the remaining band in Steve Morse to have a künsterlisch unused and in addition also still teamable new lead guitarist on board is to hear almost all songs of the album.

The best example is the catchy "Aviator", of almost anything already tends toward folk and Ian Gillan's voice can sound like a fresh Irish spring morning.

Instead of practicing on the previous albums commuting between Brute rock and trips to the pop-rock, Deep Purple have here a work as a unified whole, based on a remarkably fresh-sounding mix of Hard Rock and Blues.