Deep Purple have released the official music video for their third single, Guilt Trippin’. It is featured on the band’s forthcoming new album Splat!, out July 3rd.
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.
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!.
Collectors can look forward to a special physical release. Guilt Trippin’ is now available for pre-order on limited CD and limited 12-inch vinyl (silver and blue splatter),featuring previously unreleased live recordings of Portable Door and Anya, captured during Deep Purples‘s 2024 tour in support of their chart-topping album =1.
Other previously released songs from Splat! include Diablo (listen here) and their premiere single, Arrogant Boy (which can be heard here).
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