Deep Purple - =1 - Album Review & Unboxing

[@liamjackson6930]

Got the album on Friday 19th, really pleased with it, been listening to DP since 13 yrs old, now 63 yrs young and they are still my all time favourite band.

[@domielakrabi3276]

After listening to the album a few times - it is really very good. Very much 70's style. Some killer songs! Unbelievable how good these guys still are!!!

[@rolandbluesman2881]

I love Deep Purple. Ordered the box set. I hope to receive it this week! Looking very much forward to it!

[@thomaswery3087]

I just received my box set on Saturday from Burning Shed

[@alketkellici6766]

Personally, I would love to see another album with Simon at some point, if these old members are still around

[@sempereye7291]

According to Simon, they are already planning on yet another album relatively soon.

[@alketkellici6766]

@@sempereye7291 music to my ears

[@douglasweston126]

Hi Brendon - been listening to Deep Purple from the mid / late 60's. Just streamed the album and had my first listen - well, one things for sure, its Deep Purple alright !! The riffs, the guitar keyboard interplay, Ian Gillans vocals it sounds great. Simon McBride sounds like a hell of a guitar player, and Deep purple have always had those - Simon will do just fine. On one listen, the whole album sounds like Deep Purple - its great. Still Rockin after all these years - amazing. Cya

[@CB-xr1eg]

This is exactly what I hoped would happen. Simon McBride injects some fire and energy into the band and they made a killer rock album. My prayers have been answered. This is surely proof if needed that Deep Purple are the greatest rock band of all time.

[@aidanhatton7163]

I love “Pictures of You” too. It is so good! It has a great and memorable chorus and I love the ending!

[@micolsen9824]

In fact, my brother called me long distance and told me "pictures of you" was a great song after hearing the music video a few months back.

[@DEE-o4v]

Saw them (with my son) on the tour right before the pandemic.....Whoa! I had NO idea just HOW awesome these guys are live. I now SEE & HEAR why these folks LOVE this band so much. Don't get me wrong, I've always liked them....but seeing them live was DAMN amazing. If they come around me again - I am going!

[@ivostoyanov4850]

Yesterday I saw them in Forth Worth TX , they are amazing , All of them , and Simon McBride is a new fresh stream in the Deep Purple family tree. For everyone here and around the world just listen and go see in concert amazing band I love it always!!!

[@Jhon-Rocks]

This album has jumped to the top 3 of 2024 for me. Amazing 👏 🎉

[@darrenmaxwell1085]

I love this album. Thinks it’s great. And it’s still a little Progy which I love that addition.

[@Starman2112ofKings]

Priest was my favorite of the year……til now!!!! Can’t stop listening to it I’ve listened to it 7 times since Friday. Can’t believe it is this good at their age. Blown away by Simon McBride’s guitar sound and playing. Paice, and Airey are in top form for sure. Now What and Whoosh were good but this is KILLER!!!!! Even the slower songs are great!!!

[@micolsen9824]

They haven't dropped the ball, & that I am thrilled. Excellent follow-up to Whoosh. Thanks.

[@CB-xr1eg]

They grabbed the ball and just ran with it. Great album.

[@anthonyprice4862]

It’s absolutely brilliant!! Can’t stop listening to the album. I really liked whoosh (one of my favourite album covers) but praise the stars they didn’t retire!😊 great review👍

[@guarddl9522]

Two listens in for this one so far. Initial impressions are excellent. I hear Don Airey's stand out performance the most. Simon delivers what's expected for a DP guitarist. Definitely a return to more of a straight rock record, less proggy. I liked Whoosh a lot, but this one will compete with or surpass it. Continuing to listen to figure that out. Great review & video.

[@sjbang5764]

Nice review. Ian Gillan, 78 and still making rock music, proof there's hope for us all! How cool is that, right?

[@brettengland192]

I absolutely love the new album. I stumbled across the "Lazy Sod" video and knew I would be buying the CD. Until that, I have only owned "Perfect Strangers" on vinyl. I'm familiar with their entire discography, however, and I can safely say that the new one is by far their finest achievement to date. And the final track, "Bleeding Obvious," is a prog masterpiece.

[@carlarmou7293]

Magnificent. They've doing great albums since Purpendicular, no matter the changes they have gone through. Best of the best

[@helgeevensen856]

exactly, agree wholeheartedly, i was positively surprised by this album,,, the best dp album for decades, in my opinion... genuine dp sound here (returning, not to crime this time, but to the genuine dp sound)... interesting how they have succeeded in "re-inventing" the classic dp style for the modern era with this album... have heard it on YT only, but have ordered the CD, will also buy the LP record edition... two thumbs up for this album ☺👍👍

[@mikemattson2036]

Spot on with your review and especially your comments on Simon McBride.

[@ivostoyanov4850]

Amazing album !Ian Gillan's voice is so good , music classic Deep Purple sound , Simon McBride ...love his guitar a lot already.Hats down for DeepPurple Can't wait to see them next month with Yes !Saw them many times but never enough .Long live Rock N Roll !!!

[@markmatthew9022]

Lots of very good albums in 2024 especially from the vintage rockers

[@BrendonSnyder]

Yes 2024 has been a great year for new music. I’m having a hard time with only 20 spots on my countdown for the year. Too many good albums and they won’t all fit 😂

[@ScogginsDiscGolf]

Blown away by the album, will definitely make my top 10 for the year and may even steal the top spot!

[@rogerio1630]

O álbum é muito bom. O que me surpreendeu, foi que além dos singles, as outras músicas também são excelentes, até melhores. Simon deu um gás à banda, essa pegada mais hard do álbum, acho que se deve a ele. Enfim, longa vida ao Purple !!!

[@stevendavid5370]

I thought your review was hard hitting, accurate, and on point on every aspect of the band, art work, content, etc. Band members who are older, but can still rock out at a higher level than years ago is a badge of honor, which should be flaunted not hidden away. My copy is still on the way, but the reviews as is yours gives this album high marks. Patience is required but I am chomping at the bit to listen to this album track for track.

[@onepopv]

Great review! Thanks!

[@stevedaughertyjr1184]

Fell in love with the very best of deep purple. Can't wait to listen to their new album!

[@micolsen9824]

16:07 If they were in fact truly worried about their looks, I don't think they would have had videos. 😅

[@seabud6408]

Great review. 😀 Purple’s = 1 cover is reflecting perfectly the meaning of the album tile and “message” White .. all colours together = 1 Good conceptual art isn’t obvious. Ian Gillan is behind all this stuff. He’s obsessed with cosmology infinity the mystery of how the Universe grew us .. everything from big bang 💥 plasma /energy the four forces, geometry, information and some clumping and cooling and waiting around for 14 billion years. 🥚 to 🐓 🌱 to 🌳 Big Bang💥 to me 🕺 The Universe is likely conscious and organismic . It just doesn’t look like an organism from our perspective of its infinity ♾️ . Most scientists now think it’s cyclic .. it lives and dies and lives again. They can’t put it like that because they would be chucked out of the cult of materialism which is the central dogma of science .. great as science is obviously. The Universe - “All that is was and will be” = 1 The fragmentation/degradation of the ecosystem……🌍 …..and our interpersonal relationships and ultimately War, doesn’t reflect the actuality of that 1-ness .. which we ultimately are .. and have forgotten/ignore or are in denial of. Nature .. simple 💥 💨 🌟 and infinitely ♾️ complex 💃 🧠 and 1

[@MetalJesusRocks]

I’m amazed how Deep Purple has been cranking out great albums recently. You’d think a band that’s been around this long would be coasting…but nope. They still are creative and rock!

[@Alanpuxadordefibra]

Awesome album! 😍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@matsetizar65]

This album =10/10!

[@paulweaver]

Excellent new album brendon been playing it all weekend who needs blackmore 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

Who?

[@paulweaver]

@@notgivennotgiven7776 deep purple

[@JoeMay-wc6nv]

My favorite tracks so far as Lazy Sod & Bleeding Obvious. Simon Mcbride was the perfect Choies to take over for Steve Morse & if this truly their last Album their going out on Top. It's in my top 5, maybe number 1. But the years not over yet so we will see.

[@RobertsOnMyTurntable]

I love it. I bought the purple wax version 😊😊😊

[@svogender]

Great album... But may be the most minimalistic cover ever..!! 😊👍

[@tendraftsdeep]

Noodle appearance!!!

[@Baz63]

There has been suggestions that this album harks back to the band's prime time early 70's period. The song titles even suggest this e.g. Portable Door = Knocking At Your Back Door (okay that is '84), Lazy Sod = Lazy, Pictures Of You = Pictures of Home and Money To Burn = Burn. Okay this is a bit of a stretch but some of the riffs sound familiar. The band have produced an album that is sharp, to the point, energised with less 'progressive tendencies of say Purpendicular (their musical masterpiece in my opinion) and Now What?! although the final track Bleeding Obvious is multifaceted. Simon McBride is a more 'straight ahead' player than Morse and is reflected in the more concise song structure. Reinvigorated and re-energised this is a powerful album that is however sympathetic to Gillan's more restrained vocal delivery. For me Ian Paice is the star turn with his best drumming performance in a long time. Just listen to A Bit On The Side and Now You're Talkin' (my personal favourite). For those stating 'no Blackmore no Deep Purple' are missing, in my estimation, the band's most creative period under Morse in terms of song structure arrangements. Let's be honest the musicianship within this band has always been of the highest order.

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

I've just watched another channel who did separate videos in each song. Man, it sounds really good. Peace.

[@JohannesYtterstrom]

I like what I hear from this album!

[@user-kf3vq4bn7y]

Hi from Melbourne, Australia.. agree with you Brendon, absolutely ridiculous they don’t have band pictures in the covers, especially they now have a new guitarist… And I think the name of the album and front cover is just so boring..

[@ericmiller1881]

Listened to it a bunch yesterday. Sounds great. Very song based , not necessarily a lot of jamming like the previous few. Which are awesome of course. Very focused and to the point. Very fun and exciting album ✊️. Great review

[@Boggedy]

I think the music is great, unfortunately the album is compressed as all get out with DR of 4. Oof. No idea why bands like this agree to have the dynamics squashed. Even the vinyl is mastered loud, so getting the LP doesn't help (much) in that regard. Still, its a solid album, getting new music from bands like DP is always a bonus.

[@alketkellici6766]

The problem with some fans is there still stuck in the 70s. Blackmore is not playing rock for the last 2-3 decades, and when he tried to do some concerts with rainbow, he could not play anymore

[@SwedenWitchcraft]

The last song from the record was best !

[@fredrikjelkefors9336]

Steve Morde was in Deep Purple amost 30 years

[@BrendonSnyder]

Yes…28 years to be exact 👍

[@thomasgood3472]

Purple with Blackmore used to be fab.

[@BrendonSnyder]

Ok…but what about the rest of the line-ups like the latest with Simon McBride who we’re talking about in this video?

[@tomy8339]

Lol, still talking about Blackmore 30 yrs after he made his final departure from Purple. 😅 Blackmore is now dressing up as Robin Hood playing ye olde medieval music with with his fair maiden wife. 😊

[@thomasgood3472]

@@BrendonSnyder Irish McBride's certainly a better axeman than Steve Morse, but I don't see these killers riffs anymore. Purple have become lame after Blackmore left the band. It's like Uriah Heep nowadays. Horrible without Ken Hensley. Conclusion: Purple used to be brill but utter rubbish nowadays!

[@thomasgood3472]

@@tomy8339 You're a dull lad.

[@tomy8339]

@@thomasgood3472 😭

[@tapanim6576]

😎👍

[@MarcDurain]

I agree on everything you say : - I absolutely love Whoosh, but on this new album the band sounds revitalized - "Portable Door" could easily have been on Whoosh and makes a good transition - I was a bit disappointed to see that there was no pictures of the band in the booklet - I want to hear more from Mark 9 !

[@deepzepp4176]

I love the music and songs on the album, but for me, Gillans voice is a real problem. The riffs and interplay between Airey and Mcbride are superb, and their solos are fantastic on every track. McBrides tone and style suits them perfectly. Paice is back at the top of his game, he sounds completely revitalised. Glover, also. But Gillian’s voice is so strained, nasal and thin, that I find it hard to listen too. Ezrin has mixed Gillans vocals so dry and upfront that it doesn’t do Gillan any favours. I love Gillan, but he just sounds painfully bad at this point.

[@bau6078]

Hey you forgot your t shirts ❤

[@Stephen1164]

Shout out to Noodle!!

[@minbari73]

I wonder who did the cover art, might hire them to do my fridge shopping lists.

[@arzabael]

It is truly egregious that they squandered the latest opportunity. How many album covers do you get as a band? 5, 10, 15 maybe? I will never understand how a group like that could choose to opt into not making the cover interesting

[@arto2533]

Really enjoying the album, and your videos as well. Would it be possible to time stamp your reviews so it's easier to skip the band history portion?

[@BigOx-yh9th]

Played it a few times now. Starting to grow on me. Each debut album with a new guitarist has brought in changes to the band. I loved Steve Morse's work. Finding Simon McBride has a very British feel to his playing which makes the songs more conducive to the M2 line up l feel.

[@rikkinadir7979]

What's the name of the cat? :-)

[@BrendonSnyder]

Noodle

[@ronnienose8608]

Actually, they haven't changed guitar players in 28 years not 20 (Steve joined the band in 1994). Nice review, love the album, amazing to think Gillan will be 79 next month. It's incredible that Purple are still so creative at this stage of their career.

[@notgivennotgiven7776]

Yeah, it's hard to believe it was that long. Love me some Steve Morse.

[@BrendonSnyder]

I was referring to their stable line-up with no member changes for 20 years. Don Airey joined in 2002 with no changes until Morse.

[@jasonpp1973]

Ian Paice is such a powerhouse drummer, he also was briefly with Whitesnake, as well with Paul McCartney on Run Devil Run, a cool rockin' covers album with another great guest, David Gilmour.

[@ronnienose8608]

He did three Whitesnake albums and it's the best lineup in my opinion, more light and shade, before the band morphed into a hair metal band. Paicey also played with Gary Moore (as did Don Airey).

[@adrianbug8790]

That fu@ken cats back 🐈‍⬛😂

[@BrendonSnyder]

It’s his house, I just live in it.

[@JoeMay-wc6nv]

@@BrendonSnyder Thats the way it is at our house it's the dogs house & WE live in it.

[@NorsePJ]

I went to the shop to buy the album and they only received 2 copies from their distributor. I bought half of them. Selling out fast. LOL!

[@gokhanersan8561]

Great song writing. Pure hard rock. Their best since 1987’s HOBL. I was ready to pass up on DP. But, this one will be the first I’ll buy since 2003s bananas.

[@patriotpizzaman]

I listened to this one the whole way through last night. I only heard the first single on the day it was released prior to this. I didn't want to spoil the surprise and I felt like the first single was a clear mission of intent. My initial take on this album is that the music is not a run of the mill retread of past glories. Although it is very much a Deep Purple sounding album. Simon McBride seems to have an ability to chanel a little of that Blackmore flavor without sounding like a clone. There are also some Zeppelinesque moments that I found very enjoyable (Ian even manages to sound a little like Robert Plant on one section). Very tasty playing on the band's part. Everyone sounds fantastic in their lanes and the production is sparkling as well. My only real gripe with this album is Ian Gillan's quirkiness which has always made or broke my affinity for a new release of his. Sometimes he's amazing and other times I'm left scratching my head. This time around, he seems to be slightly off lyrically. Not all of it's bad. The single Portable Door has a decent story throughout and Bleeding Obvious is good. Most of the rest of it is Ian singing about various women in his creepy sexually tinged way that's a little off putting at times. I guess it's not much different from his past works but, the older he gets, the creepier it sounds. He's singing to prostitutes and goldigging younger women at various times and possibly to a wife on the verge of divorcing him or taking him out? I don't know what I would have wanted or expected a man of Gillan's experience to be singing about so, I'm not going to pass judgment on that. I'm just having a little trouble relating to it myself. Overall I'm going to give it a 7/10. I took a point or two off for the lyrical scrabble that Ian lays out for us this time around.

[@thomaswery3087]

The box set has a very cool cover

[@sjwill1956]

Pickin up my copy next week from my local shop.. they have one set aside.. Saw an interview apparently a friend of the band showed them this complicated math equations... the solution was =1 ... they said it fit the history of the band.. complicated but in the end .. it's just Deep Purple....lookin for ward to hearing the full album on Wednesday ( regular visit to the shop).. seen Purple live 4 x the best was in a bar in Toronto on the Purpindicular tour.. trying to recover their reputation .. up close .. the only act I have more music from is Robin Trower

[@arzabael]

If I was them or the stones or ac/dc etc I’d feel responsible to write music about the bitter sweetness of mortality and how they philosophize their way to being happy and having things to seek and hope for and ways to grow during those stages of life that are no longer about picking up chicks at the bar. So it’s the lyrics for me, that kind of make this album a missed opportunity, in some ways, and the album cover art as well is such an odd thing to deliberately choose to make boring

[@jaixaphoto]

In Rock was the 4th studio Album, Concerto for Group and Orchestra was a live album. It was their 5th album though. I would not classify DP mk1 as a psychadelic rock band. The new guitarist is good and plays with a more recognizable style and a style that fits better with Purple.

[@teec3557]

I just have to say that Bob Ezrin imo has ruined the sound of Deep Purple along with Don Airey choosing to go “light” or somewhat absent on the growling rhythm of the Hammond organ. ‘What If’ was a well produced album but Paice’s drums are buried in the mix on some songs. On Whoosh the music seems compressed particularly Morse’s guitar which also is buried in the mix. A real shame. Do you know what is the best sounding Ezrin album - Turning to Crime. Probably because they weren’t together in the studio and Ezrin didn’t have time to screw with the sound. The organ on some of the songs literally growls in places plus all the instruments are in your face like the early DP albums. At least Michael Bradford for all his faults had each instrument clearly up front and distinct except on Rapture of the Deep where it sounds like on some songs Paice only has a snare drum. Listen to Wrong Man - there is nothing like like this on the new album because that heavy organ rhythm is just not there. Also, Gillan’s vocals are too up front in the mix particularly in Whoosh and similarly in = 1. Plus the last two albums has reduced Purple to a 3-4 minute song band. That is not Deep Purple. Too many songs too short too much vocal - how people can compare this album of 13 3-4 minute songs to In Rock with 7 songs is baffling. The same hold true for WHOOSH which imo has better sings than this album

[@lionheartroar3104]

I liked Portable Door..the second and third singles are forgettable.

[@crucify40]

Didn't they actually start their Long Goodbye tour when they released Infinite in 2017?

[@crucify40]

Yes but does the cat like it?

[@BrendonSnyder]

That’s why he joined the video

[@bengalgangster]

i thought it was a very good album i thought simon mcbride brought a new much needed energy to the band best of theirs in quite awhile i didnt care much for the covers album or whoosh i gave this 4.5 stars a job well done

[@vik351]

Morse wrecked Deep Purple every day it tried to play it's Dixie chick crap ... Simon is Deep Purples saviour ...!!! Three Cheers for Simon ... Deep Purple live again , he got the old fart's blood pumpin again ... ;-) ...!!!

[@mutant_blues]

Without any doubt it's a good album...but as we said last year with Hackney Diamonds: Nothing memorable and almost unnecessary...

[@PurpleHounding]

Like your comment.

[@thomasgood3472]

@@mutant_blues Agree.

[@alketkellici6766]

Do you expect them to re invent the wheel? No they won’t but the music is hard and good. There are a couple of songs that I don’t care about it because they’re Gillian’s input. But there are so much good music in there as well.

[@mutant_blues]

​@@alketkellici6766I don't expect anything more from what they offer us....I already said that the album is good...

[@teec3557]

Have to agree. People are falling all over themselves like they rediscovered the 70s classic DP. Not even close Ezrin is overrated and has neutered the growling Hammond sound of DP with too many too short songs.

[@crucify40]

56 years true, but you might have to subtract those 8 years from 1976 to 1984 when DP did not exist.

[@michaelholmes4374]

Smoke on the water is overrated fireball is a better song plus uthers

[@j.j.guerrieri5257]

These minimalist album covers are so bad, just hard to ignore, album covers have been subpar lately