Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant (Official Video)

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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.

‘Curious Ruminant’ will be available on several different formats, including a Ltd Deluxe Ultra Clear 180g 2LP + 2CD + Blu-ray Artbook & Ltd Deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook. Both of these feature the main album, alternative stereo mixes & a blu-ray containing Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound (once again undertaken by Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief), as well as exclusive interview material. The Ltd Deluxe vinyl artbook also includes in 2 exclusive art-prints. The album will also be available as a Special Edition CD Digipak, Gatefold 180g LP + LP-booklet & as Digital Album (in both stereo & Dolby Atmos).
Pre-order now here: https://jethrotullband.lnk.to/CuriousRuminant-AlbumID

Video directed by Costin Chioreanu

Lyrics:

Curious Ruminant

I count my life in seconds past
In meeting minutes, hours of glass
Days of quiet watching, thought bubble clouds
Blow through the years, wond’ring aloud

Needle matches spark my fires
Dissenting voices from steeple spires
Ring out across the woody hills
As brief as mad March daffodils

Asking: why am I here?
Answering: why am I anywhere?
Orbiting construct of Jung and Freud
Psycho-dreaming asteroid

Faced with big questions, toss and turn
Unfit to frolic, unconcerned

Asking: why am I here?
Answering: why am I anywhere?
Orbiting construct of Jung and Freud
Psycho-dreaming asteroid

Ruminant pleasures, write them down
Harsh adjective, improper noun
Reconsider each every day
I'll change my viewpoint, shift and sway

No head in pickle, soup or stew
Sit on the fence, enjoy the view

Needle matches spark my fires
Dissenting voices from steeple spires
Ring out across the woody hills
As brief as mad March daffodils

Dead, gone, detached from your reality
Pray, think of me kindly anyway
In wee hours you hear midst the gath'ring gloom
My ghostly whisper: Cogito, ergo sum

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