After two consecutive new Jethro Tull album releases in 2022 and 2023, another collection – ‘Curious Ruminant’ – is unleashed on the 7th March 2025. Consisting of nine tracks varying in length from two and half minutes to almost seventeen minutes, this is an album of mostly full band music. Amongst the musicians featured are former keyboardist Andrew Giddings and drummer James Duncan, along with the current band members David Goodier, John O’Hara, Scott Hammond and, making his recording debut with the band, guitarist Jack Clark.
Jethro Tull has released “The Tipu House,” the second single from their upcoming album “Curious Ruminant”.
The song cuts its hints of utopia, where “you feel for your neighbour,” with acidic lines like “The day of books and roses shown firmly to the door.” At three and a half minutes, “The Tipu House” recalls the band’s folk-rock roots, complete with a flute solo.
(Fans craving Tull’s more progressive leanings will welcome the album’s 17-minute penultimate track “Drink From the Same Well.”)
“Our societies are filled with those who have risen from relative poverty to positions of greatness in the world and their successes are a beacon of hope for the rest of us, even if ‘greatness’ is a relative concept at the end of it all,” bandleader Ian Anderson notes in a press release for the new song.
The Fat Angel Sings 