WHOOSH!

"Whoosh" is one of those albums that promises to grow in your soul with each new listen. Most of the tracks are well assembled together and worked in the spirit of a good progressive tradition. Don Airey's excellent keyboards, especially the heavy Hammond, the mark of Deep Purple of course, with Handel inserts, create a robust but also melodious sound ("Nothing At All"). Quite dark texts to enlighten your mind. Gillan is aware of the limits of his voice slightly altered by the passing of the years and does not exaggerate, keeping a decent tone, but in the same register of vitality. He is no longer a rebel "Child in Time", but a grown man concerned about these troubled and crazy times. Only the last track seems more pastiche "Dancing in my sleep". Why they slammed it last, I don't understand. It could have not be at all in order to be a perfect album.