Jethro Tull new album, the 24th TULL observation, Curious Ruminant. Release date: March 7!

[treeduck]

 

01. Puppet And The Puppet Master (04:04)
02. Curious Ruminant (06:00)
03. Dunsinane Hill (04:17)
04. The Tipu House (03:31)
05. Savannah Of Paddington Green (03:13)
06. Stygian Hand (04:16)
07. Over Jerusalem (05:55)
08. Drink From The Same Well (16:42)
09. Interim Sleep (02:33)

 

Tull line-up: 

 

* Ian Anderson – Flutes, vocals, acoustic guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin, odds and sods, bits and bobs
* David Goodier - Bass guitar
* John O'Hara - Piano, keyboards, accordion
* Scott Hammond – Drums
* Jack Clark – Electric guitar

 

The album also features:

* James Duncan - Drums, cajón, percussion
* Andrew Giddings - Piano, keyboards, accordion

 

Title track and first song to be unleashed:

 

 

Here's the official video as well:

 

 

Edited Friday at 06:50 PM by treeduck

[Nova Carmina]

No Martin Barre, though, huh? Why not just call it "Ian Anderson cosplays as Jethro Tull"?

[treeduck]

5 minutes ago, Nova Carmina said:

No Martin Barre, though, huh? Why not just call it "Ian Anderson cosplays as Jethro Tull"?

Yeah the band members are just random names at this point, and it's a different line-up on each subsequent album. The new song is good though and the new guitarist (Jack Black on his day off??) sounds pretty good too.

[zepphead]

Pretty decent song by ........ Jethro Anderson, or maybe Ian Tull ..... but certainly not Jethro Tull.

I wish he would just release stuff as The Ian Anderson Band. 

[bluefox4000]

39 minutes ago, Nova Carmina said:

No Martin Barre, though, huh? Why not just call it "Ian Anderson cosplays as Jethro Tull"?

 

i've called it Ian Anderson's House Payment

 

Mick

[toymaker]

Same lack of vocal melody as over the last several albums - the tendency for lines to use the same note over several words followed by a slight dip or rise - often bordering on spoken word.  I respect that he's still making music as he approaches 80, but I miss the fire in his voice.

 

I miss the chemistry of the classic line-ups, too.  The guitarist is doing a serviceable job of sounding like Barre, but over all, this is Jethro Tull lite, once again. 

[treeduck]

33 minutes ago, toymaker said:

Same lack of vocal melody as over the last several albums - the tendency for lines to use the same note over several words followed by a slight dip or rise - often bordering on spoken word.  I respect that he's still making music as he approaches 80, but I miss the fire in his voice.

 

I miss the chemistry of the classic line-ups, too.  The guitarist is doing a serviceable job of sounding like Barre, but over all, this is Jethro Tull lite, once again. 

You'll buy it though, and with a secret giddy feeling in your guts! 

[treeduck]

1 hour ago, zepphead said:

Pretty decent song by ........ Jethro Anderson, or maybe Ian Tull ..... but certainly not Jethro Tull.

I wish he would just release stuff as The Ian Anderson Band. 

How do you feel about the upcoming new Steven Wilson release?

[toymaker]

5 minutes ago, treeduck said:

You'll buy it though, and with a secret giddy feeling in your guts! 

The last JT album I bought was TAAB2 (by "Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson") - which I just couldn't warm up to. 

Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting too cynical.  When I listen to this Curious Ruminant track, I'm trying to enjoy it but these thoughts keep interrupting - "that guy's doing a pretty decent job of sounding like Martin Barre"; "Anderson sounds like a tired old performance poet"; "those backing musicians are just playing along" . . .  It seems I can't get my inner critic to shut the hell up.

[treeduck]

8 minutes ago, toymaker said:

The last JT album I bought was TAAB2 (by "Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson") - which I just couldn't warm up to. 

Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting too cynical.  When I listen to this Curious Ruminant track, I'm trying to enjoy it but these thoughts keep interrupting - "that guy's doing a pretty decent job of sounding like Martin Barre"; "Anderson sounds like a tired old performance poet"; "those backing musicians are just playing along" . . .  It seems I can't get my inner critic to shut the hell up.

I think you should grab a copy, I'll be getting a copy for sure.

[zepphead]

1 hour ago, toymaker said:

The last JT album I bought was TAAB2 (by "Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson") - which I just couldn't warm up to. 

Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting too cynical.  When I listen to this Curious Ruminant track, I'm trying to enjoy it but these thoughts keep interrupting - "that guy's doing a pretty decent job of sounding like Martin Barre"; "Anderson sounds like a tired old performance poet"; "those backing musicians are just playing along" . . .  It seems I can't get my inner critic to shut the hell up.

Sounds a bit like my thought process. I keep thinking it's not really a band, just poor old Ian and a bunch of musicians playing at being a Tull tribute act.

[zepphead]

1 hour ago, treeduck said:

How do you feel about the upcoming new Steven Wilson release?

It should be interesting. I am hoping a bit rockier than his last couple of releases. Certainly worth a listen.

[treeduck]

2 minutes ago, zepphead said:

It should be interesting. I am hoping a bit rockier than his last couple of releases. Certainly worth a listen.

Aye, I've ordered my copy, just the normal CD edition of course.

[treeduck]

Meanwhile I'm listening to this:

 

 

[zepphead]

4 minutes ago, treeduck said:

Meanwhile I'm listening to this:

 

 

Tomorrow I'll listen to a new remaster of 'Sad Wings Of Destiny' and the new album by Swedish melodic death metal band 'The Halo Effect'

[treeduck]

4 minutes ago, zepphead said:

Tomorrow I'll listen to a new remaster of 'Sad Wings Of Destiny' and the new album by Swedish melodic death metal band 'The Halo Effect'

Has the new remaster of Sad Wings of Destiny been released? 

[treeduck]

16 minutes ago, zepphead said:

Tomorrow I'll listen to a new remaster of 'Sad Wings Of Destiny' and the new album by Swedish melodic death metal band 'The Halo Effect'

And what's this Halo Effect band like? Should I be interested? 

[treeduck]

3 hours ago, zepphead said:

Tomorrow I'll listen to a new remaster of 'Sad Wings Of Destiny' and the new album by Swedish melodic death metal band 'The Halo Effect'

Ok I've got something for you Zepp, try this a mixture of prog rock and death metal.

 

 

[treeduck]

8 hours ago, Nova Carmina said:

No Martin Barre, though, huh? Why not just call it "Ian Anderson cosplays as Jethro Tull"?

From the horse's mouth:

 

 

[zepphead]

9 hours ago, treeduck said:

Has the new remaster of Sad Wings of Destiny been released? 

Yes, first week in January. It's available to me on Amazon Music Unlimited.

[zepphead]

9 hours ago, treeduck said:

And what's this Halo Effect band like? Should I be interested? 

The band are pretty good - decent metal/progressive metal. The singer might put you off a bit - kinda half way between clean vocals and death vocals. But worth a listen.

[zepphead]

6 hours ago, treeduck said:

Ok I've got something for you Zepp, try this a mixture of prog rock and death metal.

 

 

I'll give 'em a rip later on today.

[zepphead]

5 hours ago, treeduck said:

From the horse's mouth:

 

 

You tell 'em Martin!

[Nova Carmina]

12 hours ago, treeduck said:

From the horse's mouth:

 

 

 

That is rather sad. "Ian talked, and I listened." WTH, Anderson? I liked his point about each of their bands having one member of classic Tull, though; sick burn.

[zepphead]

On 1/11/2025 at 8:31 AM, zepphead said:

I'll give 'em a rip later on today.

I gave this band a whirl yesterday. I quite enjoyed them although for a death metal band there was quite a lot of brass on some tracks. Nonetheless it was an enjoyable listen.