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http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130509/GUSTO/130509246/1031“Now What?!” fully qualifies as a late-career masterpiece from Deep Purple. It’s stuffed to the brim with music that is everything most modern rock fails to be – inventive, vibrant, daring, eloquent, diverse, virtuosic and genre-busting. It is also a beautifully produced recording, one overseen with what was obviously extreme care and concern by legendary producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”). At heart, it’s an album that calls into question exactly what is meant by the term classic rock, which today more often than not conjures images of bands well past their prime touring the outdoor summer show and casino circuit playing songs from a distant heyday.
Deep Purple is not one of these bands. Most of its members are in their late 60s, yes, but living off of the past is not in the group’s playbook. Of the 19 studio albums Deep Purple has recorded since its formation in 1968, “Now What?!” ranks among its very finest.
The band’s current lineup – singer Ian Gillan, bassist Roger Glover, drummer Ian Paice, guitarist Steve Morse and keyboardist Don Airey – has been in place since 2002, following the departure of founder and keyboardist Jon Lord, who died in 2012. Gillan, Glover and Paice are fully tenured members whose talents grace all of the band’s finest work. Morse, whose solo work and efforts as leader of the Dixie Dregs made him a legend long before he joined Purple, has been on board since the 1996 release of “Purpendicular.” The albums released since Morse joined represented significant rebirth and forward motion for the band, as its urgent commingling of hard rock, blues, jazz and R&B opened up to accommodate elements of folk, country and progressive rock. “Now What?!” is the feather in the cap of Morse-era Deep Purple’s work.
It begins with “A Simple Song,” bassist Glover’s diads providing a reflective grounding for a supple introduction, Gillan’s remarkably lithe, full-bodied tenor floating into the mix with a stately motif, before the whole band kicks into a heavy, mildly Eastern ensemble riff that is pure Purple. “Weirdistan” continues along a similar route, as the Paice/Glover rhythm section lays down another exotic stomp, Gillan’s doubletracked vocal weaving between taut organ and guitar stabs to spin a lovely yarn concerning a commingling of souls from different cultures. “Out Of Hand” is heavy and agile, its exotic riff bouncing around an urgent melodic line from Gillan, who seems to have set his sights on corrupt bankers, or perhaps the gluttonously wealthy in general.
“Blood From a Stone” offers lithe jazz-blues, with stunning electric piano work from Airey. “Body Line” is heavy funk-soul, powered by Paice’s dynamic press rolls and relentlessly danceable groove. “Apres Vous” is heavy prog-rock that somehow incorporates inflections of R&B in the groove and in Gillan’s impeccable vocal, before Morse and Airey perform ensemble figures of jaw-dropping virtuosity.
It’s thrilling, the whole lot of it, a fiery and confident rock music that might serve as a tutorial on aging in rock ’n’ roll with grace, dignity, imagination and fire intact. Perhaps most significant among its merits is the way that “Now What?!” places Deep Purple firmly in the present tense, as a band that celebrates its past without needing to rely on it. Superb, in a word.
– Jeff Miers
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