DEEP PURPLE RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO | GUILT TRIPPIN’
LISTEN TO GUILT TRIPPIN' & WATCH THE VIDEO
Deep Purple release their new single Guilt Trippin’ today - just days ahead of the worldwide release of their highly anticipated new studio album SPLAT! on 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.
Ian 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 & blue splatter), featuring previously unreleased live recordings of Portable Door and Anya, captured during Deep Purple’s 2024 tour in support of their chart-topping album =1.