BURN

Deep Purple

Proto-Prog

3.88 | 956 ratings

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The entry of Glenn Hughes (ex - Trapeze) on bass and vocals and the little known David Coverdale on vocals (chosen after Paul Rodgers declined the invitation) to replace Roger Glover and Ian Gillan respectively, helped not only to bring harmony back to the heart of Deep Purple, but also added new nuances to the band's sound universe with the release of "Burn" (1974), their eighth album and first of their second reincarnation (Mark III).

A mixture of influences and styles inhabit the album, which oscillates between the elaborate hard rock of the homonymous "Burn" with the baroque keyboards of Jon Lord and the guitar exhalations of Ritchie Blackmore in the frequency of "Highway Star", the festive boogie of "Lay Down, Stay Down" and "What's Goin' On Here", the groove- heavy funk of the sludgy "Sail Away" with Lord's hypnotic keyboards, and the witty "You Fool No One" with a great solo by Blackmore over Ian Paice's dynamic percussive base, and the meditative blues of the mournful "Mistreated" with another very good solo by Blackmore and Coverdale's most accomplished vocal participation in the work.

And to complete the palette of colors, the instrumental "'A' 200" (name taken from antiparasitic disinfectants), starred in good measure by the keyboards and especially Lord's lysergic moog and Paice's percussive evocation of Maurice Ravel's 'Bolero', adds the experimental and progressive touch to "Burn" in its final stretch.

Commercially "Burn" did well (#3 on the UK charts and #9 in the US), and while it doesn't reach the heights of "Deep Purple in Rock" or "Machine Head", it's a few notches above "Fireball" and several more above "Who Do We Think We Are".

3.5/4 stars

Hector Enrique | 4/5 | 2025-4-21

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