Deep Purple - Whoosh!

Whoosh! is the twenty-first studio album by British hard rock band Deep Purple, released in August 2020 via earMusic.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Steve Morse and Don Airey continue to travel the scope of hard rock, the textures and nuances of their recent works are anything but thudding re-treads.

If you set a random play setting for the band’s entire catalogue, the result is one of the finest musical outputs to grace rock music. The band’s twentieth studio album inFinite (2017) has become one of their most successful albums ever, breaking chart records accumulated by the hard rock legends over an impressive 50-year history. It entered the German Official Album Charts at #1, having been awarded Gold for over 100.000 copies sold and, moreover, reached the Top 10 in an impressive number of countries worldwide. It followed the release of NOW What?! (2013), which charted at #1 in 5 European countries, the Top 10 in over 15 countries worldwide and earned Gold Status in Germany for over 100.000 copies sold.

Whoosh! sees Deep Purple for the third time joining forces with producer Bob Ezrin, who invited the band to Nashville to write and record new songs. Together they created the most versatile album in their collaboration.

Deep Purple “stretched out in all directions” without any limitation, letting their creativity go. “Deep Purple is putting the Deep back into Purple” was the half joking motto in the studio after the first songs made it clear that Ezrin and Purple were on their path to creating an album pushing the boundaries of time, while voicing their resentment about the current situation of the world and addressing all generations.

This double album 2LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves, pressed in Germany via earMusic.