Jethro Tull – The Tipu House (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:
The Tipu House

In the tipu house live all kinds of people
Old ladies up the back stairs, young lives dreamt away
Their useless husbands drink through the long hot evening:
Maybe I could be one, with some practice and a prayer

All God's children play in that toxic city garden
Stealing from their brethren a saucy view or more
Of domestic incidents and guilty copulation
The day of books and roses shown firmly to the door

In the tipu house you feel for your neighbour
Trade rice and greasy vegetables, shoulders on which to cry
You don’t feel so good about them quite all of the time
And someone has to fix the plumbing, or at least give it a try

All God's children play in that toxic city garden
Stealing from their brethren a saucy view or more
Of domestic incidents and guilty copulation
The day of books and roses shown firmly to the door

In the tipu house there’s a quiet insistent babble
Marital possibilities, grow fecund in the air
Secret forbidden dowries for joining better families
Whispered promises in the hubbub of the market square

All God's children play in that toxic city garden
Stealing from their brethren a saucy view or more
Of domestic incidents and guilty copulation
The day of books and roses shown firmly to the door
In the tipu house there are forever changes
Young gladiators, nourished by the football terrace beat
Aspire to vie in the moneylenders' temples of Madrid
Dream hungry dreams in smooth Brioni, turning up the heat


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