But if the patina of The Zealot Gene is any indication, still more captivating work may lie ahead of Anderson and his cohorts - even with their best-known music a half-century behind them. They've had numberless lineups across the decades, and longtime, fan-favorite guitarist Martin Barre left in 2011. These days, Anderson is the only remaining original member of Jethro Tull. But they've always had bigger fish to fry than being cool. Leave your preconceptions at the door, maybe hop around on one foot a little, and you're in for musical treasures galore - from poetic outpourings to horny musings to sober inquiries into a higher power. The mordant Newman is most famous for Toy Story, so he must be a cuddly, harmless artist the black-humored Steely Dan jammed with jazz legends and projected laconic cool, so they must be a yuppie-friendly yacht-rock act.Īs for the erudite Tull, perhaps their theatrical goofiness and "Dungeons & Dragons"-style album art backfired in that department. Like fellow '70s hitmakers Randy Newman and Steely Dan, the press has pigeonholed them with superficial characterizations. Drawn from Biblical accounts and morality lessons, songs like "Shoshana Sleeping," "The Betrayal of Joshua Kynde" and "In Brief Visitation" peer under the hood of the human condition like only Anderson can.ĭespite Tull's considerable creative powers - and being a staple of hard-rock radio - they remain bizarrely underrated. It may be their first album in almost two decades, but their idiosyncratic vision remains undeterred. 28, the English progressive rock titans are back with The Zealot Gene. Wielding a freight-train intellect, a bookworm's vocabulary, and underdiscussed melodic gifts (despite his limited vocal range), Anderson has penned a few dozen tunes that belong in the Tower of Song - from the white-knuckled "Locomotive Breath" to the enchanting "One White Duck / 0¹⁰ = Nothing at All" to the exquisite "Moths." And the more you plumb beneath the surface - the riffs, the flute, the, er, codpiece - the more rewarded you'll be. It’ll give you goosebumps if you're in the right mood. "Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride / Spawning new millions, throws the world on its side." Unfurling its predecessor's purview until it encompasses everything, Anderson condemns an overpopulated, coarsening society plundering its only home. "The excrement bubbles / The century's slime decays," it goes. He makes rock songs, not TED Talks.īut what if you do want to dig deeper than the top-line information about Tull? Anderson put out Silent Singing for the more invested portion of his fan base - those who know his art beyond the famous Anchorman scene.įlip to even the most obscure entry, like the one for "Wond'ring Again," a sequel to Aqualung's love song "Wond'ring Aloud," buried in the 1972 compilation Living in the Past, and the cerebral, furious and evocative lyrics might blow your hair back.
In other words, Anderson's not here to lecture listeners about the wonders of cutting-edge technology, the corruption of organized religion, or the joys of animal life. "They're not all necessarily interested in what lies behind it." "They are perfectly entitled to - and perhaps best advised to - just listen to the music and sing along, or tap their foot and enjoy it on a relatively basic level," the bandleader tells of the book, which spans his life's work since 1968. He doesn't expect most people to seek it out, much less absorb it - and he's perfectly OK with that.
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Ian Anderson recently released Silent Singing, a full compendium of his lyrics with his band, Jethro Tull, and from his solo career.
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