Category: JETHRO TULL

JETHRO TULL are releasing their first studio album of new material in over 18 years – ”The Zealot Gene”. It’s been almost two decades since leader Ian Anderson used the Jethro Tull name on an album. And you’d have to go back even further than 2003’s The Jethro Tull Christmas Album for the band’s previous all-original studio LP.
”The Zealot Gene” arrives after a smattering of Anderson solo records, including a sequel to Tull’s classic 1972 album Thick as a Brick. It’s no coincidence that the music on the band’s 22nd LP recalls that storied era of codpieces, concept albums and extended flute solos. However, instead of side-long suites, ”The Zealot Gene” is focused in song format, according to times.
That time away, paired with renewed interest in making a Jethro Tull album again (in name and sound), leads Anderson to their most durable record in quite some time. You’d probably have to go back to 1977’s Songs From the Wood to find a more consistent Jethro Tull album…