The 25th album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, accordion, keyboards, flute and vocals.
Two guests added percussion, drums, accordion, piano and keyboards.
The career of this band has been a bit stop and go in the last two decades. Ian Anderson has been working on other projects during these years. Most notable his own solo career and albums. Martin Barre, which many regards as irreplaceable, left the band years ago.
This fifty minutes long album sees both Ian and Jethro Tull returning to their roots as a folk rock act. Well, they were a blues band in the beginning and these are their roots. But they had their breakthrough more than fifty years ago when they changed course and become a folk rock band.
There is also some subtle old symphonic prog bits in their music too.
The longest song here, Drink From The Same Well, is clocking in at seventeen minutes and has a symphonic prog theme. It is a bit a of return to their Thick As A Brick era.
This is a surprisingly good album and something I did not think Ian had in him, fifty years after their best albums was released. I am positive very surprised and this is a very good album indeed. If this is their swansong, and Ian is so old now that this is likely their swansong, Jethro Tull are going out on a high with this album.
3.5 points
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