Curious Ruminant is Jethro Tull’s third in the three years since Ian Anderson relaunched the band with 2022’s The Zealot Gene. It finds the frontman in a more contemplative lyrical mode than usual.
“Curious Ruminant could refer to a ruminant in the sense of it being an animal, like a cow or a deer or a sheep – but in this case it’s applied to humans thinking something through, ruminating on it,” says Anderson. “And it’s ‘curious’ in the investigative sense, of wanting to find out about something and think about it, rather than curious as in ‘weird.’”
