Deep Purple has always been hit and miss for me due to their albums being uneven for my taste. Coverdale era is my favorite. Interestingly Steve Morse has been replaced by Simon McBride who played with Sweet Savage in the 90's. I like this first single.

1. "Show Me"
2. "A Bit on the Side"
3. "Sharp Shooter"
4. "Portable Door"
5. "Old-Fangled Thing"
6. "If I Were You"
7. "Pictures of You"
8. "I'm Saying Nothin'"
9. "Lazy Sod"
10. "Now You're Talkin'"
11. "No Money to Burn"
12. "I'll Catch You"
13. "Bleeding Obvious"

The single is killer...hopefully the rest of the album is as energetic.
I dont dislike any of their recent albums, but none have been essential by any stretch.

This is a lot of fun. Nice gallop and bounce and Ian is doing his thing... I always find him a really charismatic singer.

The last album of new songs was OK, but I've been going back to Now What and Infinite every so often and both really hold up. I'm kind of amazed they're able to keep going as long as they have. After every recent album I always think that's the last one, but they keep plugging on.

Old men who've seen it all playing their hard rock. That's fun. Same thing as with Uriah Heep. "Infinite" was the last one I bought. The new song sounds nice enough.

The new song sounds great, Simon McBride fits well enough. I have always enjoyed the Steve Morse stuff and even if the music slowed down to a ponderous pace, you could always rely on Ian to spin a clever line and make it interesting.

My only gripe is this zero effort cover art like Now What had.

I literally changed that album to "Above and Beyond" in my iTunes and used that single artwork.

Not bad, but not nearly as potent as the initial single.

I agree, Portable Door really caught my attention. It will be interesting to see what the overall balance of the album is like.

I'll never say anything bad about them. Real respect to all these guys, especially the two ians, who have been in it for the long haul (well, GIllan was gone for a long time, but you know what I mean).
Still, new stuff isn't that exciting to me, admittedly. Maybe a few too many lineup changes by this point. Maybe they just sound a bit worn out. But I wouldn't ask them to quit, I'm honestly very happy that they are still able to makemusic at this venerable age.

This one's pretty OK - a nice, clean, well-played hard rock tune, nothing really pushing it, it just is what it is. They definitely cornered out their niche in this sort of old-dude rock mode and I can respect it. I hope there's some more epic stuff like "The Surprising" somewhere on this album - or "Nothing at All" from the last one; that was also really fucking good and epic, that more mysterious, surreal side of them.