Label: Ear Music (Europe), 0212395EMU
Style: Hard Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 45:43, 80:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 349, 599 Mb
InFinite, like its predecessor, was tracked in a studio in Nashville,
Tennessee and helmed by Bob Ezrin, one of the few producers whose work
with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper and Pink Floyd genuinely merits the epithet
‘legendary’. The results have been mooted as possibly the most ‘70s’ of
any Deep Purple album since 1984’s reunion album, Perfect Strangers.
The clues - ‘heavier’, ‘prog’, ‘70s’ - are all there: InFinite definitely won’t disappoint fans of classic Purple. It’s a feast of wanton organ and quasi-classical keyboard curlicues, bolstering bass from Roger Glover and percussive surges courtesy of Paice. Gillan, meanwhile, is in grand over-the-top form, trying a little too hard, perhaps, to keep up with the heavy metal kids, effing and blinding throughout. Elsewhere, he’s ‘three sheets to the wind’ in One Night In Vegas, while On Top Of The World finds him variously lying ‘beside the most beautiful girl in the universe’ and ‘collapsed between the eyes of Morpheus’.
It’s colourful and inadvertently comical stuff, but there’s no denying that the music is worth taking seriously, from the rampaging opener Time For Bedlam and exotically textured The Surprising to the Zep-ish Hip Boots and Birds Of Prey. The album closes with a perfunctory cover of Roadhouse Blues, but InFinite works best when Purple do what they do best: extrapolate and alchemise the blues, and take it to new progressive heights.
(loudersound.com/reviews/deep-purple-infinite-album-review)
The clues - ‘heavier’, ‘prog’, ‘70s’ - are all there: InFinite definitely won’t disappoint fans of classic Purple. It’s a feast of wanton organ and quasi-classical keyboard curlicues, bolstering bass from Roger Glover and percussive surges courtesy of Paice. Gillan, meanwhile, is in grand over-the-top form, trying a little too hard, perhaps, to keep up with the heavy metal kids, effing and blinding throughout. Elsewhere, he’s ‘three sheets to the wind’ in One Night In Vegas, while On Top Of The World finds him variously lying ‘beside the most beautiful girl in the universe’ and ‘collapsed between the eyes of Morpheus’.
It’s colourful and inadvertently comical stuff, but there’s no denying that the music is worth taking seriously, from the rampaging opener Time For Bedlam and exotically textured The Surprising to the Zep-ish Hip Boots and Birds Of Prey. The album closes with a perfunctory cover of Roadhouse Blues, but InFinite works best when Purple do what they do best: extrapolate and alchemise the blues, and take it to new progressive heights.
(loudersound.com/reviews/deep-purple-infinite-album-review)
01. Time for Bedlam (04:34)
02. Hip Boots (03:23)
03. All I Got Is You (04:42)
04. One Night in Vegas (03:23)
05. Get Me Outta Here (03:58)
06. The Surprising (05:57)
07. Johnny’s Band (03:51)
08. On Top of the World (04:01)
09. Birds of Prey (05:47)
10. Roadhouse Blues (06:01)
01. Time For Bedlam (04:59)
02. Fireball (03:26)
03. Bloodsucker (04:11)
04. Strange Kind Of Woman (07:41)
05. Uncommon Man (06:40)
06. The Surprising (06:01)
07. Lazy (07:47)
08. Birds Of Prey (05:46)
09. Perfect Strangers (07:10)
10. Space Truckin’ (05:02)
11. Smoke On The Water (06:40)
12. Peter Gunn / Hush (07:40)
13. Black Night (07:25)
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