Vinyl Record
Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant
Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant on LP vinyl. A 2025 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2025
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2025 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Curious Ruminant is late-period Jethro Tull refusing to behave like a victory lap. Released in 2025, it follows The Zealot Gene and RokFlote in a surprisingly active new-album run, with Ian Anderson once again building songs around flute-led melody, folk-rock texture, progressive structure, and literate observation. The record's title is apt: these songs think as much as they stride. The arrangements move between concise pieces and the long-form Drink From the Same Well, giving the album room for both miniature detail and extended development. Acoustic guitars, mandolin, accordion, keyboards, flute, and electric guitar are used not as nostalgia props but as parts of a still-flexible language. What stands out is the personal tilt. Anderson's writing often sounds reflective without becoming soft, willing to examine history, politics, loss, appetite, and human absurdity through the dry, angled voice that has always made Tull more peculiar than standard progressive rock. It is recognizably Tull, but alert rather than embalmed.
The album matters because it documents Jethro Tull as an active studio proposition in the 2020s, not just a touring name with a deep archive. It also confirms that Anderson's flute-centered, folk-progressive writing can still make room for new band members, long-form pieces, and present-day concerns.
For collectors, Curious Ruminant is a useful modern chapter beside the classic 1970s run and the band's recent 2020s releases. It is especially relevant if your shelf tracks Ian Anderson's evolving songwriting rather than only the canonical early albums. The appeal is current catalogue continuity, not speculation about a specific LP configuration.
Modern progressive folk-rock with signature flute lines, acoustic textures, reflective vocals, intricate keyboards, occasional electric bite, and extended compositional turns.
Recommended for: Jethro Tull completists following the 2020s studio albums; Progressive folk-rock listeners who value flute-led arrangements; Fans of literate late-career rock with long-form ambition.
Is Curious Ruminant a new studio album? Yes. It is a 2025 Jethro Tull studio album and part of the band's active 2020s recording run. Does it include long-form material? Yes. The album includes concise tracks as well as the extended Drink From the Same Well. How does it relate to classic Tull? It uses familiar elements such as flute, folk texture, and progressive structure, but frames them through present-day writing rather than simple recreation.