SPLAT! pushes Deep Purple back into heavy, riff-driven classic rock, with Hammond organ fire, sharp Simon McBride guitar lines, Ian Paice’s hard swing, and Ian Gillan’s surreal storytelling at the front. The album moves like late-life thunder with a grin: political frustration, metaphysical dread, barroom absurdity, and cosmic jokes all folded into a tight old-school rock charge. Album / London, England, United Kingdom / July…