{"id":20115,"date":"2022-02-16T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=20115"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:21:42","slug":"album-review-jethro-tull-the-zealot-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=20115","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting in 1968 with their debut This Was<\/strong><\/em>, British prog-rock legends Jethro Tull<\/strong> released album after album concluding with the bummer of an album J-Tull Dot Com (a terrible title). Twenty-three years later, Jethro Tull, whose sole remaining original member is founder\/songwriter\/multi-instrumentalist Ian Anderson<\/strong>, has returned with the Zealot Gene<\/strong><\/em>, which I consider to be their finest work since 1978\u2019s Heavy Horses.<\/p>\n

Throughout the \u201880s and into the \u201890s, instead of sticking to the folk, woodsy fueled progressive rock that Tull was known for and did best, Anderson attempted to capture some relevancy in the \u201cmodern\u201d times bringing in the \u201880s sound of synthesizers and even dabbled into a more distorted hard rock sound that at times balanced the beam nearly tipping into the metal genre. Unfortunately, this was not a good move, and my interest in Jethro Tull was gone until now with the release of The Zealot Gene<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMrs. Tibbets\u201d and \u201cJacob\u2019s Tales\u201d brought a huge smile upon my face, \u201cMine is the Mountain\u201d had the hair on the back of my neck standing at full attention, and \u201cWhere Did Saturday Go\u201d had me daydreaming of sitting in the woods, smoking my mind out, and made time stand still just long enough for me to take in the moment to be more present than I\u2019d been that whole day.<\/p>\n